Словарь синонимов английского языка - exaggeration

(n) overstatement, magnification, inflation, embroidery, embellishment, elaboration, enlargement, stretch, romanticization, extravagance, overemphasis, excess, exaltation, enhancement, hyperbole; empty talk, bombast, bragging, boasting, boastfulness, magniloquence, Literary gasconade, rodomontade, Colloq fish story, puffery, Slang bull(shit), hot air: It was a press agent's exaggeration to call the movie a 'colossal epic'.