exaggeration
nounEtymology
From Latin exaggerātiō.
- borrowed from exaggerātiō
Definitions
The act of heaping or piling up.
The act of exaggerating
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.
- They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
The neighborhood
- synonymoverstatement
- synonymhyperbole
- antonymtrivialization
- antonymunderstatement
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at exaggeration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at exaggeration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at exaggeration
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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