Synonyms and related words :
Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness, convolution, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, demonstrativeness, dilatation, dilation, dramatic art, dramatic form, dramatic irony, dramatic stroke, dramatic structure, dramaticism, dramatics, dramatism, dramaturgy, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, extreme, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, fulsomeness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, heightening, high-flown diction, histrionics, histrionism, huckstering, human interest, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflatedness, inflation, inordinacy, jauntiness, jazziness, lexiphanicism, loftiness, loudness, love interest, luridness, magnification, magniloquence, making scenes, melodrama, melodramatics, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, nonrationalness, obtrusiveness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, panache, platitudinous ponderosity, play construction, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prodigality, profuseness, prose run mad, puffery, puffing up, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sententiousness, shamelessness, showiness, sportiness, staginess, stiltedness, stretching, superlative, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tawdriness, theatricalism, theatricality, theatricals, theatricism, theatrics, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unreasoningness, visceralness, vulgarness, yellow journalism