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emphases

NOUN

importance, prominence

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attention insistence intensity priority significance strength stress weight

STRONG

accent accentuation force headline highlight impressiveness moment positiveness power preeminence

WEAK

decidedness underlining underscoring

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance lethargy triviality unimportance

STRONG

incompetence weakness

WEAK

insignificance

Example Sentences

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The difference was not just one of opposing political ideologies but of vastly different cultural and human emphases.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2024

Where Hearts had made the right choices in key moments, Celtic too often took the wrong option with passes, crosses and emphases.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

There were emphases on ballhandling, shooting from midrange, being aggressive, driving to the basket and finishing around the rim.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

You could hear Nézet-Séguin working out the dynamic emphases in real time at Carnegie.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022

Its emphases vary according to my own indifferences and ignorance as well as according to my own sympathies and knowledge.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)