noun. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

noun. In rhetoric, an obvious exaggeration; an extravagant statement or assertion not intended to be understood literally.

noun. Synonyms See exaggeration.

noun. 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.

noun. Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.

noun. Deliberate exaggeration.

noun. An instance or example of this technique.

noun. A hyperbola.

noun. extravagant exaggeration