Emphasis vs Emphatically - What's the difference?
emphasis | emphatically |
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.
In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
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(obsolete) Not really, but apparently.
As a noun emphasis
is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.As an adverb emphatically is
in an emphatic manner; with emphasis.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
* ----emphatically
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Adverb
(en adverb)- He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
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- (Sir Thomas Browne)
