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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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Exaggeration Quotations

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Exaggeration Translations

exaggeration in Italian is esagerazione
exaggeration in Norwegian is overdrivelse


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