page_title: Exaggeration
hierarchical_section_title: Exaggeration
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of Pantagruel for the Fourth Book in the Pantagruel and Gargantua series by François Rabelais, published in Oeuvres de Rabelais (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1873),vol. 2, Book IV, ch. XXXV, opposite title page in the book.
context_page_description: Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it really is. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle's discussion of the alazon: 'the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished qualities which he possesses either not at all or to a lesser degree than he pretends...exaggerating'.
  It is the opposite of minimisation.
  Words or expressions associated with exaggeration include:
  catastrophization
  hyperbole
  laying it on thick
  magnification
  maximization
  overblowing
  overplaying
  overreacting
  overstating
  stretching the truth
context_section_description: Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it really is. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle's discussion of the alazon: 'the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished qualities which he possesses either not at all or to a lesser degree than he pretends...exaggerating'.
  It is the opposite of minimisation.
  Words or expressions associated with exaggeration include:
  catastrophization
  hyperbole
  laying it on thick
  magnification
  maximization
  overblowing
  overplaying
  overreacting
  overstating
  stretching the truth
caption: Fishing stories are often associated with exaggeration. Rabelais' Pantagruel got a sea serpent when fishing.
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