emphases
SayEM-fuh-seezUS/ˈɛmfəsiz/UK/ˈɛmfəsiːz/
- 1Plural of emphasis.
The new curriculum shifted its emphases toward problem-solving and collaboration.
Critics noted the conflicting emphases in the director's earlier and later films.
Note
The plural follows a pattern English keeps for a small set of nouns ending in -is: the ending becomes -es, as in thesis and theses or crisis and crises. It belongs to the countable uses of emphasis, where separate priorities or points of stress can be counted, compared and shifted, as in a curriculum's emphases or the differing emphases of two arguments.
emphases is a form of emphasis
emphasis, noun: Particular attention or importance given to something to single it out as significant. Full entry
- Forms
- emphasisemphases plural
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