accentuation has definitions from the field of rhetoric
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[ noun ] the act of giving special importance or significance to something

Related terms

action stress

2
[ noun ] (rhetoric) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance

Related terms

stress stress

3
[ noun ] (rhetoric) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

Examples

"he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

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