Extreme Exaggeration

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Category: Communication

Foundational Lexiconway overdoing it
Executive Parlancedeliberate overstatement
Scholarly Discourserhetorical amplification
Babel ZenithHyperbole
Origin: Greek
Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɜːrbəli/

Etymology & Meaning

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect.

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