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overemphasis
noun as in exaggeration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in sensationalism
noun as in tall talk
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
Example Sentences
Overemphasis on targeting operations plagued our efforts in the early years of the war.
It is a manner full of exaggeration and overemphasis, but with some remarkable rhetorical qualities and a good deal of colour.
"I wish you wouldn't say any more," she begged, though without overemphasis of pleading.
You will find the result is that overemphasis which has brought such discredit upon the name of "elocution."
The Sunday school also sometimes offends in this respect by overemphasis on academic tasks for home work.
I should be sorry to spoil my picture by the overemphasis of details.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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