reemphasis

Stressing it again

Reemphasis is emphasis placed again or anew—a renewed stressing of something already emphasized: The report's reemphasis on budget constraints frustrated the committee.

The word often signals that a point bears repeating or that earlier emphasis proved insufficient.

reiteration

restate

Express again differently

reinforce · reassert · stress · highlight · accentuate · repeat · echo · reconfirm · redouble · hammer home

persuasion

convince

Cause to believe

  • urgeStrong inner drive
  • insistAssert with determination
  • pressApply force downward

advocate · argue · stress · exhort · drive home · entreat · implore · campaign · lobby · rhetoric

clarification

elucidate

To make understood

unpack · simplify · disambiguate · elaborate · expound · specify · detail · contextualize · annotation · commentary

Opposites
emphasis intensity

reemphasisde-emphasis

Reduction in importance

downplaying · minimization · understatement · soft-pedaling · glossing over

discourse sequence

reemphasisintroduction

Preliminary section or presentation

abandonment · moving on

repetition vs. initial statement

reemphasisintroduction

Preliminary section or presentation

debut · premiere

Family

reemphasize, reemphasized, reemphasizes, reemphasizing, reemphasised

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