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What is the noun for hyperbolically?

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hyperbole
  1. (rhetoric) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
  2. (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
  3. (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “But nobody can fault him for not lavishing enough hyperbole on his creation.”
      “Stripping aside the zingers and hyperbole, you get a fairly clear picture of the respective strategies for the summer campaign.”
      “If such infantile hyperbole doesn't have you laughing like a drain, you haven't a hope of wading through this somewhat too hefty book.”
hyperbolism
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “This, of course, is expressed in poetry, in which hyperbolism and exaggeration is the fundamental law.”
      “At the time when the novel appeared, this apocalyptical chapter must have seemed to be the boundary of hyperbolism.”
      “Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.”
hyperbolist
  1. One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
hyperbolicity
  1. The property of being hyperbolic.
hyperbolics
  1. The use of hyperbole.
hyperbolisms
hyperbolists
  1. plural of hyperbolist
hyperboles
  1. plural of hyperbole
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.”
      “Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.”
      “During Mizner's formative years, smart conversation consisted mainly of tired hyperboles.”
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