exaggeration

[Ex*ag`ger*a·tion]

A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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The act of heaping or piling up.

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

Noun
making to seem more important than it really is

Noun
extravagant exaggeration


n.
The act of heaping or piling up.

n.
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.

n.
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.


Exaggeration

Ex*ag`ger*a"tion , n. [L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exag'82ration.] 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.
3. (Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

The act of heaping or piling up.

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Usage Examples

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Other Usage Examples

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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