Stress
Stress noun - A special notice or importance given to something.
Usage example: the company's orientation program places considerable stress on workplace safety
Significance is a synonym for stress in emphasis topic. In some cases you can use "Significance" instead a noun "Stress".
Significance
Significance noun - The idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action.
Stress is a synonym for significance in speech topic. Sometimes you can use "Stress" instead a noun "Significance", if it concerns topics such as emphasis.
Related pairs
How words are described
| emotional | emotional stress | emotional significance |
| high | high stress | high significance |
| considerable | considerable stress | considerable significance |
| deep | deep stress | deep significance |
| Other adjectives: heavy, massive, extreme, great, enormous, little, social, personal, new, major, less, negative, extra, additional, immense, greater. | ||
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