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What does hyperbolism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The use of hyperbole
  2. (countable) An instance of hyperbole
  3. (countable, geometry) A blow-up of a curve at a point.
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In spite of the exaggeration, hyperbolism, and excessiveness, the fabliaux embody an authentic, deep sense of realism.
At the time when the novel appeared, this apocalyptical chapter must have seemed to be the boundary of hyperbolism.
It is no hyperbolism that the campaign period is the most critical and sensitive stage in any presidential and parliamentary elections.
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
As a result, in some places the images have an overwrought, almost drunken hyperbolism.
He expressed this hyperbolism to allay some disappointment which his friend felt in not hearing him.

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