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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou

Meaning of "exaggeration" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXAGGERATION

exaggeration  [ɪɡˌzædʒəˈreɪʃ ən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXAGGERATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exaggeration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXAGGERATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

exaggeration

Exaggeration

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 qualities which he possesses either not at all or to a lesser degree than he pretends...exaggerating'. It is the opposite of minimisation. Words or expressions associated with exaggeration include: ▪ catastrophization ▪ hyperbole ▪ laying it on thick ▪ magnification ▪ maximization ▪ overreaction ▪ overstating ▪ stretching the truth...

Definition of exaggeration in the English dictionary

The definition of exaggeration in the dictionary is the act of overstating or an instance of overstating.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXAGGERATION


adulteration
əˌdʌltəˈreɪʃ ən
colonization
ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃ ən
commiseration
kəˌmɪzəˈreɪʃ ən
congratulation
kənˌɡrætʃʊˈleɪʃ ən
cremation
krɪˈmeɪʃ ən
deceleration
ˌdiːsɛləˈreɪʃ ən
dehydration
ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪʃ ən
denigration
ˌdɛnɪˈɡreɪʃ ən
deregistration
diːˌrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃ ən
desecration
ˌdɛsɪˈkreɪʃ ən
devastation
ˌdɛvəˈsteɪʃ ən
discolouration
dɪsˌkʌləˈreɪʃ ən
disintegration
dɪsˌɪntɪˈɡreɪʃ ən
dissemination
dɪˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃ ən
escalation
ˌɛskəˈleɪʃ ən
evacuation
ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ ən
evaporation
ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃ ən
exploitation
ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃ ən
fabrication
ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃ ən
fascination
ˌfæsɪˈneɪʃ ən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXAGGERATION

exactment
exactness
exactor
exactress
exacum
exaggerate
exaggerated
exaggeratedly
exaggeratedness
exaggeratingly
exaggerative
exaggerator
exaggeratory
exahertz
exalbuminous
exalt
exaltation
exalted
exaltedly
exaltedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXAGGERATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of exaggeration in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXAGGERATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «exaggeration» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of exaggeration

Translation of «exaggeration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXAGGERATION

Find out the translation of exaggeration to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exaggeration from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exaggeration» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

夸张
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exageración
570 millions of speakers

English

exaggeration
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अतिशयोक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُبالَغَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

преувеличение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exagero
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যুক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exagération
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keterlaluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Übertreibung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誇張
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exaggeration
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự phóng đại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிகைப்படுத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिशयोक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

abartı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esagerazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyolbrzymienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перебільшення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exagerare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερβολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oordrywing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

överdrift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overdrivelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exaggeration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXAGGERATION»

The term «exaggeration» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.564 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXAGGERATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «exaggeration» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «exaggeration» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exaggeration

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10 QUOTES WITH «EXAGGERATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word exaggeration.
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Daniel Alarcon
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
2
William R. Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
3
Reza Aslan
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.
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Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
5
Bo Bennett
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.
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Josh Billings
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Lawrence Block
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
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Walther Bothe
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
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Drew Carey
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
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John Clayton
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXAGGERATION»

Discover the use of exaggeration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exaggeration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophy of Exaggeration
This book analyses concepts such as truth and trust, practices such as politics and art, experiences such as the formation of a life line and its erasure, from the viewpoint of exaggeration./span/font
Alexander García Düttmann, 2007
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Extreme Environment: How Environmental Exaggeration Harms ...
Globally relevant, but offering a unique perspective from a developing country - South Africa - this book is a must-read for every thinking person who cares about the world we live in.
Ivo Vegter, 2012
3
Principles and Applications of Photogeology
Vertical. Exaggeration. INTRODUCTION The stereoscopic image perception is an imaging phenomenon, the establishment of which is a psycho-physiological problem. The proper understanding of the stereoscopic vision and model formation ...
Shiv N. Pandey, 1987
4
Analysts, Incentives and Exaggeration
Sell-side analysts are compensated, at least in part, by brokerage commissions.
Timothy Wayne Shields, 2007
5
The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
Distortion is so basic to Clemens's comedy that James M. Cox considers exaggeration to be the characterizing style of the Twain persona who shapes all of Clemens's humor (22). Exaggeration works as humor for Clemens because the  ...
J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric, 1993
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Psychological Injuries : Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and ...
There are, in essence, three underlying reasons for presumed deliberate exaggeration that are typically considered in personal injury cases. First, and most commonly, the clinician might conclude that the plaintiff has exaggerated as a “cry for ...
William J. Koch Professor of Clinical Psychiatry University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University Kevin S. Douglas Assistant Professor, Tonia L. Nicholls Senior Research Fellow British Columbia Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, 2005
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Exploring Drawing for Animation
This knowledge and the ability to be a good observer provide the artist with a firm , realistic foundation upon which to build his/her drawing skills. Having said that, we'll contradict ourselves again and tell you that the exaggeration of anatomy ...
Stephen Missal, 2003
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On the Comic and Laughter
Various techniques of exaggeration, which are critically important for some theorists, are closely linked to parody. Podskalsky writes that 'comic exaggeration , is the key issue in the specific description and realization of a comic character and a ...
Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp, Patrick Debbèche, Paul Perron, 2009
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The Neuropsychology Handbook: Third Edition
poor effort or exaggeration seem too strong for the clinical situation, such as when there is somewhat equivocal evidence for their presence. There are also occasions when I might describe a person's effort on testing as suboptimal, or variable.
Arthur MacNeill Horton, Danny Wedding, 2008
10
Social and Cognitive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication
These data provide some support for the “just right” hypothesis described earlier; the participants seemed to think that moderate exaggeration was more likely than either no exaggeration or high exaggeration. The no exaggeration level, ...
Susan R. Fussell, Roger J. Kreuz, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXAGGERATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exaggeration is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greek debt crisis triggers memories of World War Two
Stathis Gourgouris, a writer and political philosopher, says it is no exaggeration so compare life here to a "war without bombs". "Events are ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
DeAndre Jordan, Banana Boats and Betrayal: Welcome to the New …
Maybe that's an exaggeration, and maybe it isn't, but I think Lowe hit on a fundamental truth, which is that the NBA embraces its own ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
3
Everything You Don't Know About The Real Colonel Sanders
“Couldn't hold a job” is no exaggeration. After being fired from another gig at the Illinois Central Railroad for getting into a fight, he became an ... «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
4
Workers get off the road on their bikes for Rainbow Centre
'It is no exaggeration to say that Amey continue to go above and beyond with their support.' This event, along with a 25-mile bike ride organised ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
5
US Jewish leaders eye Iran talks warily, ready to attack 'bad deal'
“There is no exaggeration there. The stakes are enormous, for the U.S., for our allies in the region, for global security,” he said. “That's why ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
6
Butler's Dunham makes final 16 for Pan Am Games team
It would be no exaggeration to suggest that participation by Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack on Team USA at the under-19 World ... «Indianapolis Star, Jul 15»
7
Nigeria's oil bill: back to the drawing board
It is probably not an exaggeration to describe it as the government's piggy bank,” says Mr Odein. Nigeria. Shell and ExxonMobil, who both have ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
8
'Road tax' rears its ugly head again for England's cyclists
... and elements of the media as a societal outgroup, a narrative thus prone to exaggeration and generalisation and resistant to actual facts. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Battered remains of medieval knight who died in bloodiest battle of …
Medieval claims were that he had 40,000 men, but historians say that is an exaggeration. The Lancasters, though, had an army at least equal to ... «Ancient Origins, Jul 15»
10
Alexander the Great
If New York had not ratified, it is hard to see how the Union could have come into being. It is not an exaggeration to say that, without Hamilton, ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»

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