exaggeration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun extravagant exaggeration
    hyperbole.
  2. noun the act of making something more noticeable than usual
    • the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness
  3. noun making to seem more important than it really is
    magnification; overstatement.

WordNet

Ex*ag`ger*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exagération.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913