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Emphasize vs Ingeminate - What's the difference?

emphasize | ingeminate |

As verbs the difference between emphasize and ingeminate

is that emphasize is to stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something) while ingeminate is to say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.

As an adjective ingeminate is

redoubled.

emphasize

English

Alternative forms

* emphasise

Verb

(emphasiz)
  • To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
    • His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.

    Synonyms

    * betone * stress * underscore

    Antonyms

    * de-emphasize * downplay

    Derived terms

    * reemphasize * overemphasize * underemphasize

    Related terms

    * emphasis * emphatic

    ingeminate

    English

    Verb

    (ingeminat)
  • To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
  • *1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , II:
  • *:we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat [...].

    • Related terms

    * ingemination

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • redoubled
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • reiterated
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