Emphasis vs Contrast - What's the difference?
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Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
Special attention or prominence given to something.
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
(typography) Related to bold.
(label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
#(label) The degree of this difference.
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#(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
(label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
Antithesis.
To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
To form a contrast.
* Lyell
As nouns the difference between emphasis and contrast
is that emphasis is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important while contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.As a verb contrast is
to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.emphasis
English
(wikipedia emphasis)Noun
(emphases)- He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
- Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
- He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Foreground and background strongly contrast .
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.