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Exaggeration

Exaggeration Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Exaggeration? [n] the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness" [n] making to seem more important than it really is [n] extravagant exaggeration Synonyms \| Synonyms for Exaggeration: hyperbole \| magnification \| overstatement Related Terms \| Find terms related to Exaggeration: abandon \| abstractionism \| accelerando \| acceleration \| affectation \| aggrandizement \| aggravation \| amplification \| beefing-up \| blague \| blowing up \| blowup \| boundlessness \| cock-and-bull story \| coloring \| command of language \| concentration \| condensation \| confabulation \| consolidation \| deepening \| deformation \| distortion \| egregiousness \| embellishment \| enhancement \| enlargement \| enormousness \| equivocation \| exacerbation \| excess \| excessiveness \| exorbitance \| exorbitancy \| explosion \| expression of ideas \| expressionism \| extravagance \| extravagancy \| extreme \| extremes \| extremism \| extremity \| fabulousness \| fairy tale \| false coloring \| false swearing \| falsehood \| falsification \| falsifying \| falsity \| farfetched story \| farrago \| fashion \| feeling for words \| fib \| fiction \| fish story \| flam \| flight of fancy \| flimflam \| form of speech \| garbling \| ghost story \| giantism \| gigantism \| gluttony \| grace of expression \| grandiloquence \| half-truth \| heating-up \| heightening \| hyperbole \| hypertrophy \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| inaccuracy \| incontinence \| inflation \| information explosion \| injustice \| inordinacy \| inordinance \| inordinateness \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| intensification \| inundation \| legal fiction \| lie \| literary style \| litotes \| little white lie \| magnification \| manner \| manner of speaking \| mannerism \| mendacity \| miscoloring \| misconstruction \| misdrawing \| mispainting \| misquotation \| misreport \| misrepresentation \| misstatement \| misteaching \| mode \| mode of expression \| monstrousness \| nimiety \| nonrealism \| outrageousness \| overappraisal \| overassessment \| overcalculation \| overdevelopment \| overdrawing \| overestimate \| overestimation \| overflowing \| overgreatness \| overgrowth \| overindulgence \| overlargeness \| overmuch \| overmuchness \| overpass \| overrating \| overreaction \| overreckoning \| overrun \| overrunning \| overspreading \| overstatement \| overvaluation \| peculiarity \| perjury \| personal style \| perversion \| pickup \| pious fiction \| population explosion \| prevarication \| radicalism \| redoubling \| reinforcement \| rhetoric \| romance \| sense of language \| slanting \| slight stretching \| speedup \| step-up \| story \| strain \| straining \| strengthening \| stretching \| style \| stylistic analysis \| stylistics \| superiority \| surplus \| tale \| tall story \| tall tale \| tall talk \| taradiddle \| the grand style \| the plain style \| the sublime \| tightening \| too much \| too-muchness \| trick \| trumped-up story \| twisting \| unconscionableness \| understatement \| undueness \| unreasonableness \| unrestrainedness \| untruth \| vein \| way \| white lie \| yarn See Also \| deceit \| deception \| figure \| figure of speech \| image \| increase \| misrepresentation \| step-up \| trope Exaggeration In Webster's Dictionary \Exag`gera"tion\, n. [L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exag['e]ration.] 1. The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] ``Exaggeration of sand.'' --Sir M. Hale. 2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement. No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. --I. Taylor. 3. (Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

Exaggeration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Exaggeration?

[n] the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
[n] making to seem more important than it really is
[n] extravagant exaggeration

Synonyms | Synonyms for Exaggeration: hyperbole | magnification | overstatement

Exaggeration In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*ag`ger*a"tion\, n. [L. exaggeratio : cf. F.
exag['e]ration.]
1. The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] ``Exaggeration of
   sand.'' --Sir M. Hale.

2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing
   in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth
   reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation;
   hyperbole; overstatement.

         No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. --I.
                                               Taylor.

3. (Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life,
   in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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