Usually means: Excessive use of exaggeration stylistically.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperbolism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hyperbolism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyperbolism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyperbolism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyperbolism: Wordnik
  6. hyperbolism: Wiktionary
  7. hyperbolism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. hyperbolism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Hyperbolism, hyperbolism: Dictionary.com
  10. Hyperbolism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. hyperbolism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Hyperbolism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. hyperbolism: Free Dictionary
  14. hyperbolism: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. hyperbolism: Legal dictionary

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  1. hyperbolism: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (hyperbolism)

noun:  (uncountable) The use of hyperbole
noun:  (countable) An instance of hyperbole
noun:  (countable, geometry) A blow-up of a curve at a point.

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