dullness vs emphasis

dullness

noun
  • The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly. 

  • The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome. 

  • The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. 

  • Lack of interest or excitement. 

  • The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen. 

  • bluntness. 

emphasis

noun
  • Special attention or prominence given to something. 

  • The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants. 

  • Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. 

  • The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. 

  • Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. 

How often have the words dullness and emphasis occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )