'Exaggeration' definitions:
Definition of 'exaggeration'
From: WordNet
noun
Extravagant exaggeration [syn: hyperbole, exaggeration]
noun
The act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
noun
Making to seem more important than it really is [syn: exaggeration, overstatement, magnification] [ant: understatement]
Definition of 'Exaggeration'
From: GCIDE
- Exaggeration \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exaggeration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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