Associations to the word «Overstatement»

Wiktionary

OVERSTATEMENT, noun. An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
OVERSTATEMENT, noun. The tendency to overstate.

Dictionary definition

OVERSTATEMENT, noun. Making to seem more important than it really is.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca