exageración

Definitions of exageración
  1. noun
    making to seem more important than it really is
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    antonyms:
    atenuación, eufemismo, lítote
    a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
    type of:
    engaño, fraude
    a misleading falsehood
  2. noun
    extravagant exaggeration
    synonyms: hipérbole
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    type of:
    tropo
    language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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