overemphasis

Synonyms and related words:

aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, magnification, overcarrying, overdoing, overestimation, overexercise, overexertion, overexpenditure, overimportance, overkill, overreaching, overreaction, overstatement, overstrain, overtaxing, overuse, overwork, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, sensationalism, strain, stretching, supererogation, superlative, tall talk, tax, touting, travesty