English
Etymology
From Latin exaggeratio
Pronunciation
Noun
exaggeration (countable and uncountable plural exaggerations
The act of heaping or piling up.
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 .
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
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Translations
act of exaggerating
Belarusian: перабо́льшанне n ( pjerabólʹšannje ) , перавялі́чванне n ( pjeravjalíčvannje )
Bengali: অতিরঞ্জন (bn) ( otironjon )
Bulgarian: преувеличе́ние (bg) n ( preuveličénie )
Catalan: exageració (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 誇大 ／ 夸大 (zh) ( kuādà ) , 夸大 (zh) ( kuādà ) , 誇張 ／ 夸张 (zh) ( kuāzhāng ) , 夸张 (zh) ( kuāzhāng )
Czech: přehánění n
Estonian: liialdus
Finnish: liioittelu (fi)
French: exagération (fr) f
Galician: esaxeración (gl) f exaxeración (gl) f
German: Übertreibung (de) f
Greek: υπερβολή (el) f ( ypervolí )
Ancient: ὑπερβολή f ( huperbolḗ )
Gujarati: અતિશયોક્તિ ( atiśyokti )
Hindi: अतिशयोक्ति (hi) m ( atiśyokti )
Hungarian: túlzás (hu)
Irish: áiféis f áibhéil f Old Irish: spled
Italian: esagerazione (it) f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: 過言 ( かごん, kagon ) , 誇張 (ja) ( こちょう, kochō ) , 誇大 (ja) ( こだい, kodai )
Korean: 과장 (ko) ( gwajang ) (誇張 (ko) )
Latin: superlātiō f
Lun Bawang: foot
Macedonian: преувеличување n ( preuveličuvanje ) , претерување n ( preteruvanje )
Maori: tahuperatanga
Persian: غلو (fa) ( ğolov ) , گترم (fa) ( gotrom )
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)
Ukrainian: перебі́льшення n ( perebílʹšennja )
Volapük: tuükam (vo)