Usually means: Highlighting importance of specific elements.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word emphasis:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphasis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. emphasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emphasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emphasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emphasis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emphasis, emphasis: Wordnik
  7. emphasis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emphasis: Wiktionary
  9. emphasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emphasis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emphasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Emphasis, emphasis: Dictionary.com
  13. emphasis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. emphasis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Emphasis (After Forever song), Emphasis (telecommunications), Emphasis (typography), Emphasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Emphasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. emphasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. emphasis: Rhymezone
  19. emphasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. emphasis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. emphasis: Free Dictionary
  22. emphasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. emphasis: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. emphasis: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. emphasis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphasis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. EMPHASIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emphasis (typography), emphasis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emphasis (typography), emphasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EMPHASIS: Acronym Finder
  2. emphasis: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emphasis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
▸ noun:  Special attention or prominence given to something.
▸ noun:  Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
▸ noun:  (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
▸ noun:  (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.

Similar:
accentuation, accent, stress, vehemence, focus, overemphasis, emphasize, underemphasis, reemphasis, deemphasis, more...

Opposite:
neglect, disregard, overlook, minimize, understate

Types:
italics, boldface, underline, superscript, subscript, all caps, small caps, more...

Phrases:
de emphasis, pre emphasis, re emphasis, emphasis (typography), over emphasis, more...

Adjectives:
special, greater, more, particular, strong, less, major, main, heavy, primary, considerable


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Similar:
accentuation, accent, stress, vehemence, focus, overemphasis, emphasize, underemphasis, reemphasis, deemphasis, more...

Opposite:
neglect, disregard, overlook, minimize, understate

Types:
italics, boldface, underline, superscript, subscript, all caps, small caps, more...

Phrases:
de emphasis, pre emphasis, re emphasis, emphasis (typography), over emphasis, Emphasis of matter, put emphasis on, with emphasis, emphasis on, opposite of emphasis, puts emphasis, repeat for emphasis, more...

Adjectives:
special, greater, more, particular, strong, less, major, main, heavy, primary, considerable



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