Meaning & use
Accentuation
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The act of emphasizing something, or the pattern of stress placed on syllables or words in speech.
See it in a sentence
The coach worked with the actor on proper accentuation of certain vowel sounds.
The designer's use of bold color created a striking accentuation of the building's entrance.
A note on using this word
Accentuation applies both to linguistics, where it refers to stress patterns in speech, and more broadly to design or rhetoric, where it means drawing attention to a particular feature.
Words with a similar meaning
emphasisstress
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Words with an opposite meaning
understatementde-emphasis
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