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hyperbolism

noun

Etymology

From hyperbole + -ism.

  1. derived from *gʷelH-✻
  2. derived from ὑπερβολή
  3. derived from hyperbolē
  4. inherited from iperbole
  5. suffixed as hyperbolism — “hyperbole + ism”

Definitions

  1. The use of hyperbole

  2. An instance of hyperbole

  3. A blow-up of a curve at a point.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyperbolism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA