ETYM Latin exaggeratio; cf. French exagération.
1. Making to seem more important than it really is; SYN. overstatement, magnification.
2. The act of making something more noticeable than usual.
Quality of being extreme, quality of being radical, excessiveness
ETYM Latin, from Greek, prop., an overshooting, excess, from Greek, to throw over or beyond; hyper over + ballein to throw. Related to Parable, Hyperbola.
Extravagant exaggeration; SYN. exaggeration.
Impression by extravagant exaggeration.
Extravagant rhetorical exaggeration.
Figure of speech; the Greek name suggests “going over the top”. When people use hyperbole, they exaggerate, usually to emphasize a point (“If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times not to do that”).