Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foregrounding

1 sense of foregrounding

Sense 1
foreground processing, foregrounding -- (the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system)
       => priority processing -- (data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities)

Antonyms of verb foreground

1 sense of foreground

Sense 1
foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up -- (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics")
       Antonym of background (Sense 1)
      => background, play down, downplay -- (understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb foreground

1 sense of foreground

Sense 1
foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up -- (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics")
       => bring out, set off -- (direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets")