Hysterical vs Exaggeration - What's the difference?
hysterical | exaggeration |
Of, or arising from hysteria.
Having, or prone to having hysterics.
Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 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.
As an adjective hysterical
is of, or arising from hysteria.As a noun exaggeration is
the act of heaping or piling up.hysterical
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
