exaggeration
nounHow many syllables in exaggeration?
There are 5 syllables in the word exaggeration.How to pronounce exaggeration:
Definition of exaggeration:
- exaggeration (noun):
- a statement that exaggerates something
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual.
- an act or instance of exaggerating something overstatement of the truth
- a deliberate exaggeration of speech or writing used for effect, such as he embraced her a thousand times
Synonyms for exaggeration:
amplification
caricature
coloring
elaboration
embellishment
embroidery
emphasis
enhancement
enlargement
exaltation
excess
extravagance
fabrication
hyperbole
inflation
magnification
misrepresentation
overemphasis
overestimation
overstatement
padding
pretension
pretentiousness
step-up
stretching
Antonyms for exaggeration:
antisensationalism
compression
decrease
lessening
litotes
meiosis
restrained statement
restraint
simplification
trivialization
underestimation
underplaying
understatedness
understatement
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- craniologist
- perfectionist
- calumniator
- articulacy
- rememberable
- longitudinal
- rectifiable
- victoriously
- sentimentally
- Deuteronomy
- irresponsible
- semiconscious
- justifiably
- pectoriloquy
- ambitiously
- single-handedly
- logistically
- unquestioning
- egomania
- aberrational
- auditorily
- terminology
- inconspicuous
- Mariabella
- impresario
- cooperativeness
- preoccupation
- accelerating
- mathematical
- appropriateness
- unreasonable
- overcautious
- declamatory
- conscientiously
- rhabdomyolysis
- syllabication
- unfathomable
- abolitionist
- simultaneously
- ornithologist
- unprecedented
- amalgamation
- maniacally
- irretrievably
- Nicaragua
- personality
- contemplatively
- investigation
- interconnected
- conspicuously
- … more
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