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Emphasis vs Cohesion - What's the difference?

emphasis | cohesion |

As nouns the difference between emphasis and cohesion

is that emphasis is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important while cohesion is cohesion (the state of cohering, or of sticking together).

emphasis

Noun

(emphases)
  • Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
  • He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
  • Special attention or prominence given to something.
  • Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
  • Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
  • He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
  • (typography) Related to bold.
  • Anagrams

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    cohesion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • State of cohering, or of working together.
  • Unit cohesion is important in the military.
  • (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
  • (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
  • (computing) Degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others.
  • (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
  • Antonyms

    * adhesion * (computing) coupling

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