Synonyms:
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- blowing up,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- convolution,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fancy talk,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hot air,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity