- emphasis, accent - special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents"
--1 is a kind of importance, grandness
--1 has particulars: stress, focusDerived form: verb emphasize1 - vehemence, emphasis - intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"
--2 is a kind of intensity, intensiveness
--2 has particulars: overemphasis - emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
--3 is a kind of rhetorical device
--3 has particulars: topicalization- stress, emphasis, accent - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
--4 is a kind of prosody, inflection
--4 has particulars:accentuation; tonic accent, pitch accent; word stress, word accent; sentence stress - stress, emphasis, accent - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"