exaggeration

English

Etymology

From Latin exaggerātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ex‧ag‧ger‧a‧tion

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.

   They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.

3. A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

Synonyms

• overstatement
• hyperbole

Antonyms

• trivialization
• understatement

Derived terms

• counterexaggeration
• nonexaggeration
• overexaggeration

Translations

act of exaggerating

• Arabic: مُبَالَغَة (ar) f (mubālaḡa)
• Azerbaijani: mübaliğə, böyütmə, şişirtmə
• Belarusian: перабо́льшанне n (pjerabólʹšannje), перавялі́чванне n (pjeravjalíčvannje), перабо́льшванне n (pjerabólʹšvannje), перавелічэ́нне n (pjeravjeličénnje)
• Bengali: অতিরঞ্জন (bn) (otironjon)
• Bulgarian: преувеличе́ние (bg) n (preuveličénie)
• Catalan: exageració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誇大 / 夸大 (zh) (kuādà), 誇張 / 夸张 (zh) (kuāzhāng)

• Czech: přehánění n
• Danish: overdrivelse c
• Dutch: overdrijving (nl) f
• Estonian: liialdus (et)
• Finnish: liioittelu (fi)
• French: exagération (fr) f
• Galician: esaxeración (gl) f, exaxeración (gl) f
• Georgian: გაზვიადება (gazviadeba), გადამეტება (gadameṭeba), გადიდება (gadideba)
• German: Übertreibung (de) f
• Greek: υπερβολή (el) f (ypervolí)

  Ancient: ὑπερβολή f (huperbolḗ)

• Gujarati: અતિશયોક્તિ (atiśyokti)
• Hebrew: הגזמה (hagzama), ניפוח (nipúakh) (colloquial)
• Hindi: अतिशयोक्ति (hi) m (atiśyokti)
• Hungarian: túlzás (hu)
• Irish: áiféis f, áibhéil f

  Old Irish: spled

• Italian: esagerazione (it) f
• Ivatan: kapanatun
• Japanese: 過言 (ja) (かごん, kagon), 誇張 (ja) (こちょう, kochō), 誇大 (ja) (こだい, kodai)
• Kazakh: әсірелеу (äsıreleu)
• Korean: 과장(誇張) (ko) (gwajang)
• Ladino: guzmá
• Latin: superlātiō f
• Lun Bawang: foot
• Macedonian: преувеличување n (preuveličuvanje), претерување n (preteruvanje)
• Maori: tahuperatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overdrivelse m

• Occitan: exageracion (oc) f
• Persian: غلو (fa) (ġolov), گترم (fa) (gotrom)
• Plautdietsch: Becht f
• Polish: przesada (pl) f
• Portuguese: exagero (pt) m
• Romanian: exagerare (ro)
• Russian: преувеличе́ние (ru) n (preuveličénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преувеличавање n, претеривање n

  Roman: preuveličavanje n, pretiravanje n

• Slovak: preháňanie n
• Slovene: pretiravanje n
• Spanish: exageración (es) f
• Swedish: överdrift (sv) c
• Telugu: అతిశయోక్తి (te) (atiśayōkti)
• Turkish: abartı (tr), mübalağa (tr)
• Ukrainian: перебі́льшення n (perebílʹšennja), перебі́льшування n (perebílʹšuvannja)
• Uyghur: مۇبالىغە (mubalighe)
• Uzbek: mubolagʻa (uz)
• Volapük: tuükam (vo)
• Yoruba: àsọdùn, àwídùn