Noun
An exaggerated statement or account.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe chief error in philosophy is overstatement. Alfred North Whitehead
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. Robert Oppenheimer
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. Fred Allen
An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit. Clifton Fadiman
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. Julia Gillard
It has been asserted - and this is no overstatement - that whereas other sciences draw their conclusions from what we know, the science of probability derives its most important results from what we do not know. Richard von Mises