Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exaggeration

Exaggeration , noun

[Latin exaggeratio: compare French exagération.]

1.
The act of heaping or piling up. [Obsolete]
Exaggeration of sand. — Sir M. Hale
2.
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.
No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. — I. Taylor
3.
(Painting) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.