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accentuation

ac·cen·tu·a·tion
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ak-sen-choo-ey-shuh n]
    • /ækˌsɛn tʃuˈeɪ ʃən/
    • /əkˈsen.tju.eɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ak-sen-choo-ey-shuh n]
    • /ækˌsɛn tʃuˈeɪ ʃən/

Definitions of accentuation word

  • noun accentuation an act or instance of accentuating. 1
  • noun accentuation something that is accentuated. 1
  • noun accentuation The action of emphasizing something. 1
  • noun accentuation Act of accentuating; applications of accent. 0
  • noun accentuation (ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. 0
See all 5 definitions of accentuation

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Origin of accentuation

First appearance:

before 1820
One of the 38% newest English words
1820-30; < Medieval Latin accentuātiōn- (stem of accentuātiō) intoning. See accentuate, -ion

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Parts of speech for Accentuation

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Accentuation

accentuation popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 55% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

accentuation usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for accentuation

noun accentuation

  • stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
  • attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
  • accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
  • prominence — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
  • highlighting — to emphasize or make prominent.
All 11 Synonyms of accentuation

Antonyms for accentuation

noun accentuation

  • ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
  • importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
All 2 Antonyms of accentuation

Related words

  • contrastive stress

    a stress imposed on a word or syllable contrary to its normal accentuation in order to contrast it with an alternative word or syllable or to focus attention on it, as the stress given to the normally unstressed word of in government of the people, by the people, for the people in order to point up the parallel between of, by, and for and to distinguish of from words such as over or against.
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