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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
Lafcadio Hearn



Exaggeration Translations
exaggeration in Italian is esagerazione
exaggeration in Norwegian is overdrivelse


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