An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EXAGGERATION
exaggeration
(noun) the act of making something more noticeable than usual; “the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness”
exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
(noun) making to seem more important than it really is
hyperbole, exaggeration
(noun) extravagant exaggeration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From Latin exaggeratio
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.
Synonyms
• overstatement
• hyperbole
Antonyms
• trivialization
• understatement
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ag`ger*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exagération.]
1. The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.
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. No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. I. Taylor.
3. (Paint.)
Definition: A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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