emphasis 4
noundomain: communication
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
Hypernym
prosody 1
noun
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
EnglishDerivationally related form
emphatic 2
adjective
sudden and strong
emphatic 1
adjective
spoken with emphasis
Hyponym
accentuation 1
noun
the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
tonic accent 1
noun
emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
word stress 1
noun
the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
the distribution of stresses within a sentence
