different between emphasis vs destress

English

Etymology

From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émphasis, “significance”), from ??????? (emphaín?, “I present, I indicate”), from ??- (en-, “in”) + ????? (phaín?, “I show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mf?s?s/
• IPA^(key): [???f?s?s], [?e?f?s?s], [???f?s?s], [?e?f?s?s]

Noun

emphasis (countable and uncountable, plural emphases)

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. (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
5. (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• emphasise, emphasize
• emphatic

Translations

Anagrams

• misshape

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (émphasis, “significance”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?em.p?a.sis/, [??mp?äs??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?em.fa.sis/, [??mf?s?is]

Noun

emphasis f (genitive emphasis); third declension

1. emphasis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

References

• emphasis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• emphasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

de- +? stress

Verb

destress (third-person singular simple present destresses, present participle destressing, simple past and past participle destressed)

1. (transitive) To reduce the stresses in a material.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To reduce the stress in oneself or another person.
3. (transitive) To reduce emphasis.

Alternative forms

• de-stress

Anagrams

• desserts, dressest, stressed