Exaggeration

Noun

 * 1) The act of heaping or piling up.
 * 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.
 * 3) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

Synonyms

 * overstatement
 * hyperbole

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

Etymology
From Latin exaggeratio

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Bengali: অতিরঞ্জন
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 誇大, 夸大, 誇張, 夸张
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: liioittelu
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: अतिशयोक्ति (Ati sha yokti)
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 過言, 誇張, 誇大
 * Korean: 과장 (誇張)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: (Brasil)
 * Romanian: exagerare
 * Russian: преувеличение
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: tuükam