Plural of exaggeration; statements or accounts that represent things as greater or worse than they actually are.
From Latin exaggeratio, the noun form of exaggerare. The -tion suffix comes from Latin -tio, creating nouns from verbs, and -s makes it plural.
Studies show that humans naturally exaggerate events that happened to us by about 30%—our brains do this to make boring stories interesting, which is why every fish we caught 'got away' or was 'huge,' depending on the version we're telling.
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