emphasis

1. Special importance or significance (synset 114458332)
   "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
   is a type of: grandness, importance - a prominent status
   subtypes: focus, stress - special emphasis attached to something
   same as: accent
2. Intensity or forcefulness of expression (synset 105044549)
   "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
   is a type of: intensity, intensiveness - high level or degree; the property of being intense
   subtypes: overemphasis - too much emphasis
   same as: vehemence
3. Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. (synset 107117611)
   is a type of: rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
   subtypes: topicalization - (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English
4. The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) (synset 107099567)
   "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
   is a type of: inflection, prosody - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
   subtypes:

   • accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
   • pitch accent, tonic accent - emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
   • word accent, word stress - the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
   • sentence stress - the distribution of stresses within a sentence
   same as: accent, stress

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