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Emphasis vs Emphases - What's the difference?

emphasis | emphases |

As nouns the difference between emphasis and emphases

is that emphasis is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important while emphases is plural of lang=en.

emphasis

Noun

(emphases)
  • Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
  • He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
  • Special attention or prominence given to something.
  • Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
  • Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
  • He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
  • (typography) Related to bold.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    emphases

    English

    Noun

    (head)