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exaggeration

the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"

making to seem more important than it really is

Synonyms:

• 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