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Emphasis vs Phasis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between emphasis and phasis

is that emphasis is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important while phasis is phase, stage.

emphasis

English

(wikipedia 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.

    • Related terms

    * emphasise, emphasize * emphatic

    Anagrams

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    phasis

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The name of Rioni river in classical sources.

    • Anagrams

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