A person who exaggerates; someone who habitually makes things seem bigger, worse, or more important than they actually are.
From exaggerate plus -or (Latin -or, the agent suffix creating nouns for 'one who does' something). This is the same suffix in 'creator,' 'educator,' and 'senator.'
Every social group has an exaggerator—the person whose stories always get bigger in the retelling—and psychology suggests they're often not lying intentionally but genuinely misremembering events as more dramatic than they were.
The masculine -or form is unmarked default; female equivalents (-rix, -ress) mark gender explicitly, revealing how authority and agency default to masculine.
Use 'one who exaggerates' or specify both forms; avoid allowing the masculine to erase female speakers or narrators.
["one who exaggerates","exaggeratrix"]
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