misemphasisn.
/ˌmɪsˈɛmfəsɪs/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈɛmfəsəs/ Incorrect emphasis.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence > types of
emphasis1650
exemplariness1650
stress1653
misemphasis1893
1893 Mind 2 22 Nothing is easier than to produce such misemphasis of relations, and such unnaturalness that ugliness..is induced.
1927 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 12 Mar. 651/1 The historic church has too frequently specialized in morbid and bogey-ish suggestions until the natural trend of a faith that is faith has been diverted to misemphasis on guilt and introspective self-analysis under the obsession of fear.
1962 R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization 3 Full of fanciful misemphasis.
1990 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 28 66/2 The problem..is a relative one of misemphasis rather than an absolute one of omission.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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