Associations to the word «Accentuation»

Wiktionary

ACCENTUATION, noun. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
ACCENTUATION, noun. (ecclesiastical) (music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Dictionary definition

ACCENTUATION, noun. The use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance.
ACCENTUATION, noun. The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates