exaggeration

overstatement, hyperbole, embellishment, embroidery, overestimation, misrepresentation, extravagance, sensationalism, elaboration, coloring, stretching the truth, overreaching, overkill, flight, flight of fancy, fantasy, stretch of the imagination, figure of speech, yarn, fabrication, falsification, distortion, magnification, enhancement, aggrandizement, puffery, caricature, travesty, tempest in a teapot*, much ado about nothing*, making a mountain out of a molehill*, tall story*, whopper*, play-up*, hype*, bull*; see also lie 1.

Antonyms truth*, accuracy, understatement.