Conflate vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
conflate | exaggerate |
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As verbs the difference between conflate and exaggerate
is that conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.As an adjective conflate
is (biblical criticism) combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate
is (biblical criticism) a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.conflate
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Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
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(en noun)References
Anagrams
* ----exaggerate
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Verb
(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.