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Webster 1913 Edition


Exaggeration

Ex-agˊger-a′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
exaggeratio
: cf. F.
exagération
.]
1.
The act of heaping or piling up.
[Obs.]
Exaggeration of sand.”
Sir M. Hale.
2.
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.
No need of an
exaggeration
of what they saw.
I. Taylor.
3.
(Paint.)
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Ex-ag′ger-a-tive-ly
,
adv.
Carlyle.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exaggeration

EXAGGERA'TION

,
Noun.
A heaping together; heap; accumulation.
1.
In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.
2.
In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.

Definition 2024


exaggeration

exaggeration

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Noun

exaggeration (countable and uncountable, plural exaggerations)

  1. The act of heaping or piling up.
  2. 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.
  3. A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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