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The act of making something more noticeable than usual
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exaggeration
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin exaggerationem (nominative exaggeratio ) "elevation, exaltation" (figurative), noun of action from past participle stem of exaggerare "amplify, magnify," literally "heap up" (see exaggerate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. extravagant exaggeration [syn: hyperbole ] 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 [syn: overstatement , magnification ] ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle 's discussion of the alazon : 'the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exaggeration \Ex*ag`ger*a"tion\, n. [L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exag['e]ration.] The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] ``Exaggeration of sand.'' --Sir M. Hale. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of heaping or piling up. 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. 3 A representation ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gross ▪ But unless there is gross exaggeration or fabrication of symptoms, these should not he described as Meadow's syndrome. ▪ The first sentence in that passage is, of course, a gross exaggeration . ▪ It was ...
Usage examples of exaggeration.
It is impossible to justify the vain and credulous exaggerations of modern travellers, who have sometimes stretched the limits of Constantinople over the adjacent villages of the European, and even of the Asiatic coast.
With the one-sided exaggeration incident to most aphorisms, this is true.
By 1978 the ensuing misrepresentations and exaggerations formed the basis of an OSHA report that predicted 58,000 to 73,000 cancer deaths each year from asbestos, on the basis of which the government upped its estimate of industry-related cancers from 2 percent to 40 percent.
Luke, Cleed, Princess Marxia, Baby Liz - all were portrayed in mammoth exaggeration upon the gaudy, painted sheets of canvas.
But a brother coleopterist like yourself is always a welcome guest, and I shall be delighted if you will look over my collection, which I think that I may without exaggeration describe as the best in Europe.
She had studiously refrained from exaggeration, and I could not help confessing that she was to be pitied.
It would be no great exaggeration to call diabetes a spiritual experience, in much the same vein as a bar mitzvah, a sacrament, or the moment of enlightenment.
Sadler himself said that the petition was a mere election paper, made up of wanton exaggerations, and unfounded misstatements, for electioneering purposes.
But now, in the few days since he had taken Glair into his house, he came to realize that that had been an exaggeration.
The lieutenant-colonel was particularly conspicuous by his wounds, for, without exaggeration, he had lost one-fourth of his head.
She was magnificently dressed, and it is no exaggeration to say that she had on diamonds worth five hundred thousand francs.
There is here no imputation against the honesty of any writer, even when carelessness, exaggeration and inaccuracy are not only alleged, but demonstrated to exist.
Of personal contributions to the literature of the subject, during the past third of a century, nearly everything has been more or less polemical, called forth by either exaggeration of utility, inaccuracy of assertion, or misstatement of fact.
The satirist induces laughter by his exaggeration, the ironist induces indignation by his reversal.
It did not even seem exaggeration when some one declared that lie had seen a dead man with more than a gallon of lice on him.