All overestimation synonyms

noun overestimation

• mixup — an act or instance of mixing.
• exaggeration — A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.
• hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
• embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
• overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
• baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
• excess — An amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
• misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
• aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
• amplification — the act or result of amplifying
• 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.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• crock — A crock is a clay pot or jar.
• 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.
• extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
• jazz — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• magnification — the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
• overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
• pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
• pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
• rant — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
• romance — Music. a short, simple melody, vocal or instrumental, of tender character.
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• whopper — WarGames
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• 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.
• error — A mistake.
• misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.