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Another word for exaggeration

exaggeration Synonyms

exaggeration

n.

overstatement, hyperbole, embellishment, embroidery, overestimation, misrepresentation, extravagance, sensationalism, elaboration, coloring, stretching the truth, overreaching, overkill, flight, flight of fancy, fantasy, stretch of the imagination, figure of speech, yarn, fabrication, falsification, distortion, magnification, enhancement, aggrandizement, puffery, caricature, travesty, tempest in a teapot*, much ado about nothing*, making a mountain out of a molehill*, tall story*, whopper*, play-up*, hype*, bull*; see also lie 1.

Antonyms truth*, accuracy, understatement.

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Another word for exaggeration

noun

The act or an instance of exaggerating:

hyperbole, hyperbolism, overstatement, tall talk. See increase

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He is notorious for his wilful exaggeration, both in narrative and numerical statements.
But there was exaggeration in all he attempted.
Surely that was an exaggeration - infidelity had to be worse.
Bactria about this time was said to contain a thousand cities, and though this may be an exaggeration it was probably a meeting-place of Persian and Hellenic culture: its kings Demetrius and Eucratides had invaded India.
6) is perhaps simply an exaggeration, more or less conscious.

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