Spanish-English translations for acentuación

• accentuation
• emphasis
  It is based on the establishment of democratic structures and an emphasis on commonalities, which helped the Western European states to overcome their differences. La base de todo ello fue la construcción de estructuras democráticas y la acentuación de los rasgos comunes, que ayudaron a los estados europeos a superar diferencias.
  Firstly, the emphasis laid on the responsibility of the individual Member States when such Member States permit persons who have entered them illegally to remain in their national territory. Primero: la acentuación de la responsabilidad de los Estados miembros cuando autoricen la residencia en su territorio a personas que han entrado ilegalmente.
  He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
• stress
  Go easy on him, hes been under a lot of stress lately.
  Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.

Related words

• acentuar
• acento