Synonyms:
exaggeration
Meaning: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
Usage examples
I do not think this at all an exaggeration
It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people.
"Does it live in a tree and eat nuts?" she asked, hoping that the use of the adjective "large" might be an exaggeration.
It is said that the Chinaman does not fear death or pain, which is a slight exaggeration, because I have known criminals who feared both."
"It is not long since you told me that Mr. Harrington's very mild remark about extinguishing bribery and corruption was a piece of gross exaggeration," said Joe.
Even the imagination, that wonderful architect, with all its tendencies to exaggeration, palls in its attempt to give expression in measured quantities to the mighty power exerted by the great glacier or combination of glaciers that existed in comparatively recent times.
Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.