Exaggeration

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of heaping or piling up.

II. Exaggeration ·noun A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

III. Exaggeration ·noun The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.