EMPHASIS

Emphasis

In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text—to emphasize them.

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emphasis

Noun

  1. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
    He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
  2. Special attention or prominence given to something.
    Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
  3. 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.
  4. Related to bold.


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