Timeline for Single noun for what is being emphasised?
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| Dec 7 at 2:08 | comment | added | John Gordon | I think subject or object fit the bill. | |
| Dec 6 at 17:54 | comment | added | David McKee | You may want to be specific -- either in the question here, or your wider essay -- about what you believe is being emphasised. Different readers can regard the same art and come to wildly different opinions on what is being emphasised! And it may open up other approaches to describing a very nebulous thing... | |
| Dec 6 at 15:12 | comment | added | user3840170 | “adoration of a word being emphasised”? That seems a strange target of adoration. | |
| Dec 6 at 4:20 | answer | added | Tinfoil Hat | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 6 at 2:44 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 6 at 0:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Have you looked in a dictionary for words with the same root as emphasis? Not that I've found any that fit (or expected to). But 'focus / theme / thrust' would probably work. A noun corresponding to say 'payee' (one who is being paid) probably doesn't exist. There are many such lexical gaps. | |
| Dec 5 at 23:59 | history | edited | ermanen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 5 at 23:58 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 5 at 21:35 | answer | added | Tuffy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 5 at 20:57 | comment | added | tell | Yes, focus is good. But nothing cognate with emphasis? | |
| Dec 5 at 19:54 | comment | added | Xanne | Focus, as you said. | |
| Dec 5 at 19:33 | comment | added | tell | No, the meaning is not necessarily adoration. I am interested in a single word for "what is being emphasised", i.e. the object of emphasis. The example is just an example. It might be something that is simply being brought into sharp focus, or differentiated from other stuff, without being adored. Just so long as it's being emphasised. | |
| Dec 5 at 19:22 | comment | added | Lambie | Is the meaning: adoration of what is being emphasized? If that is the meaning, the question does not contain enough information. | |
| Dec 5 at 18:55 | comment | added | tell | I'm surprised there's not a technical word cognate with emphasis itself. | |
| Dec 5 at 18:43 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Adoration of the target? | |
| Dec 5 at 18:31 | history | asked | tell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |