All hyperbolism synonyms

noun hyperbolism

• exaggeration — A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.
• aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• elaboration — The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• embroidery — The art or pastime of embroidering cloth.
• emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
• enlargement — The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged.
• exaltation — A feeling or state of extreme happiness.
• excess — An amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
• extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
• aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
• amplification — the act or result of amplifying
• baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
• boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
• caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
• coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
• crock — A crock is a clay pot or jar.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
• fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
• flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
• hog — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.