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Noun emphasis has 4 senses

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, focus
Derived 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