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HYPERBOLE
hyperbole, exaggeration
(noun) extravagant exaggeration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
Synonyms
• (rhetoric): overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis
Antonyms
• (rhetoric): See understatement
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*per"bo*le, n. Etym: [L., fr. GrHyper-, Parable, and cf. Hyperbola.] (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect. Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. Blair. Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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