Italicizations

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act or process of making text appear slanted for emphasis or distinctiveness
2. A typographical style that highlights specific words or phrases to convey importance or suggest a particular tone
3. An application of font formatting where letters are sloped to differentiate text visually or stylistically

Etymology: "Italicizations" is simply the plural of "italicization," a noun for the act of setting text in italics, or the result of doing so. Its history is a plain stack of English suffixes. The base is "italic," which comes from "Italic," the adjective for the ancient peoples of the Italian peninsula, and which came to name the slanted typeface because that style was first associated with Italian printing. "Italicize" was formed from "italic" with the verb-making suffix "-ize," and "italicization" adds the noun-making suffix "-ation" to that verb, following the same pattern as words like "organization" and "capitalization."

Synonyms: emphasis, italics, slanting

Antonyms: plain text, roman type