🔊 Giving emphasis ✍️ Adding accent marks

accenting

5.3

To give more attention to one part to make it stand out

noun
/ˈæksɛntɪŋ/

: acentuación

Accent pieces in a room can greatly enhance the overall aesthetic by accenting key features.

Examples

Using bold colors for accenting can really make a space feel more inviting and lively.
Oh yeah, a base color of something and then accenting the secondary color get like a little tie dye Galaxy effect going.
The designer focused on accenting the room with bright cushions and artwork.

Synonyms

emphasis

vsaccenting

296 3.1

Attention that makes something stand out

refers to the action of giving that importance rather than the result

accentuation

vsaccenting

1 6.1

Giving special importance to a part to make it stand out

is the same act but uses a different word form

emphasizing

vsaccenting

3.5

Giving extra attention to something to show it is important

focuses more on making something important rather than attention

Antonyms

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

to downplay

59 5.3

Show something as less important or serious than it is

How Emphatic

emphasizing

3.5

accenting

5.3

highlighting

Specialized

2.8

to note

951 1.6

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

accenting singular

accentings plural

Morphology

accenting = accent (transparent) = accent + ing

Formed by adding the verbal noun suffix '-ing' to 'accent' (to emphasize); the meaning is the action of emphasizing and is directly derivable.

Etymology

Accenting comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and cantus 'song', the same root you see in the word chant, so imagine 'adding a song' or a strong beat to a word. So, accenting means giving special importance or emphasis, like making one note or one word stand out.