What's the difference between exaggerating and exaggeration?
Exaggerating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exaggerate
(a.) That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
Exaggeration
Definition:
(n.) The act of heaping or piling up.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.