- 1. stress, emphasis, accent, prosody, inflection
- usage: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

- 1. stress, emphasis, accent, prosody, inflection
- usage: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
- 2. tension, tenseness, stress, strain, mental strain, nervous strain
- usage: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffere