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The art of making one word carry a grudge the rest of the sentence won't admit to.
means Special weight or stress placed on a particular word, idea, or part of something to show it matters more than the rest.
from From Greek 'emphasis,' meaning appearance or significance, built from 'en-' (in) plus 'phainein' (to show). It first referred to indirect, implied meaning — a hint lurking beneath the surface of speech — before it settled into its current sense of outright stress or prominence. The shift traces a nice arc: emphasis began as something you noticed quietly, and ended up as something you can't miss.
- italics origin
- invented to mimic handwriting, not stress
- spoken version
- pitch and volume, not font choice
- overuse effect
- when everything's stressed, nothing is
- etymology
- greek for showing or pointing at