Exaggeration vs Fantasy - What's the difference?
exaggeration | fantasy |
The act of heaping or piling up.
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.
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
That which comes from one's imagination.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
A fantastical design.
* Hawthorne
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
* 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
As nouns the difference between exaggeration and fantasy
is that exaggeration is the act of heaping or piling up while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.As a verb fantasy is
to fantasize (about).exaggeration
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* overstatement * hyperbolefantasy
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(wikipedia fantasy)Alternative forms
* phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)Noun
(fantasies)- Is not this something more than fantasy ?
- A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
Derived terms
* high fantasy * low fantasyVerb
- Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
- (Cavendish)
- Which he doth most fantasy .
