Associations to the word «Hyperbole»

Wiktionary

HYPERBOLE, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) (literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
HYPERBOLE, noun. (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
HYPERBOLE, noun. (countable) (obsolete) A hyperbola.

Dictionary definition

HYPERBOLE, noun. Extravagant exaggeration.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King