too much emphasis
- overemphasisExcessive importance placed
- exaggeratedMade larger than reality
- overblownInflated beyond reasonable proportion
- heavy-handedClumsy and oppressive
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
belabored · overkill · excessive · disproportionate · harping · fixated · obsessive · hammering · pounding · stressed · labored · theatrical · melodramatic · inflated · magnified · amplified · overstated · hyperbole
degree of emphasis
too much emphasisunderemphasis
Insufficient stress on something
neglect · downplaying · de-emphasis · overlooking · glossing over
rhetorical/communicative balance
too much emphasisunderstatement
Intentional diminishment for effect
restraint · subtlety · minimizing · soft-pedaling · playing down