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What is the noun for emphasis?

What's the noun for emphasis? Here's the word you're looking for.

emphasis
  1. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
  2. Special attention or prominence given to something.
  3. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
  4. (typography) Related to bold.
  5. (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “We provide life-skills programs to young people, with an emphasis on the performing arts and youth leadership.”
      “There was an added emphasis on the need to get this project completed on time.”
      “I placed an emphasis on "do not" when I told him not to call me on that number.”
emphatic
  1. (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
  2. (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".
emphaticalness
emphasization
  1. (rare, nonstandard) A process or action of emphasizing.
emphasiser
  1. Alternative spelling of emphasizer
emphasizer
emphasisers
  1. plural of emphasiser
  2. Examples:
    1. “I wrote one sentence over the whole surface of the green form, in big black letters with silver outlines and emphasisers.”
emphasizers
emphases
  1. plural of emphasis
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He propagated ideas and emphases which departed from the biblical tradition established by the Reformers and Puritans.”
      “All of the essays repeat this same cluster of ideas, developing their implications with different emphases and nuances.”
      “Other than that, however, today's two stories have very different emphases.”
emphatics
  1. plural of emphatic
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