highlighting

The word “highlighting” means the act of marking text or an area to make it stand out visually. In plain terms, the process of drawing attention to text, or lightening streaks of hair.

Here is “highlighting” used in a sentence: “She used highlighting to flag every deadline in the document.”

“Highlighting” is a noun.

“Highlighting” is an uncommon word in modern English.

“Highlighting” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: the act of marking text or an area to make it stand out visually.

Highlighting marks text or an area with a block of color to make it stand out visually, while underlining draws a line beneath the text instead. Both are used to draw a reader's attention, but highlighting is more common in digital documents and study notes because it's easier to scan.

In hairstyling, highlighting refers to the technique of adding streaks of lighter-coloured hair, while the resulting streaks themselves are also called highlighting or highlights. The word can describe either the process or its visible result, depending on context.

Highlighting is typically used to flag text for review, mark key passages while studying, or draw attention within a longer document, whereas bold and italics are more often built into the permanent formatting of a finished text. Highlighting tends to feel temporary or annotative rather than part of the final style.