Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exaggeration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exaggeration
n 1: extravagant exaggeration [syn: {hyperbole}]
2: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the
dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his
awkwardness"
3: making to seem more important than it really is [syn: {overstatement},
{magnification}] [ant: {understatement}]
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