emphase

Definitions of emphase
  1. noun
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    synonyms: grandiloquence
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    types:
    fioriture
    a display of ornamental speech or language
    type of:
    style
    a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
  2. noun
    pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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    type of:
    grandiloquence
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  3. noun
    intensity or forcefulness of expression
    synonyms: intensité
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    type of:
    intensité
    high level or degree; the property of being intense
  4. noun
    special importance or significance
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    types:
    insistance
    special emphasis attached to something
    type of:
    grandeur, importance
    a prominent status
  5. noun
    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
    synonyms: ostentation, suffisance
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    type of:
    inélégance
    the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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