The difference between Emphasis and Stress

When used as nouns, emphasis means special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important, whereas stress means a physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.


Stress is also verb with the meaning: to apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.

check bellow for the other definitions of Emphasis and Stress

  1. Emphasis as a noun:

    Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.

    Examples:

    "He paused for emphasis before saying who had won."

  2. Emphasis as a noun:

    Special attention or prominence given to something.

    Examples:

    "Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district."

  3. Emphasis as a noun:

    Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.

    Examples:

    "He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech."

  4. Emphasis as a noun (typography):

    Related to bold.

  5. Emphasis as a noun (phonology):

    The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants

  1. Stress as a noun (biology):

    A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.

  2. Stress as a noun (biology):

    Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.

  3. Stress as a noun (countable, physics):

    The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

  4. Stress as a noun (countable, physics):

    Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

  5. Stress as a noun (uncountable):

    Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

    Examples:

    "Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately."

  6. Stress as a noun (uncountable, phonetics):

    The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.

    Examples:

    "Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second."

  7. Stress as a noun (uncountable):

    Emphasis placed on words in speaking.

  8. Stress as a noun (uncountable):

    Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

  9. Stress as a noun:

  10. Stress as a noun (Scotland, legal):

    distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

  1. Stress as a verb:

    To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.

  2. Stress as a verb:

    To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

  3. Stress as a verb (informal):

    To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.

  4. Stress as a verb:

    To emphasise (a syllable of a word).

    Examples:

    "“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second."

  5. Stress as a verb:

    To emphasise (words in speaking).

  6. Stress as a verb:

    To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

    Examples:

    "I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence."