Definition of Exaggeration

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Exaggeration

The act of heaping or piling up.

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.

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

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Exaggeration Quotations

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney

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

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

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.
Friedrich August von Hayek

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. Bush

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey

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.
Milan Kundera

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Exaggeration Translations

exaggeration in Italian is esagerazione
exaggeration in Norwegian is overdrivelse

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