Synonyms and related words :
aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, breaking point, burlesque, caricature, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, doziness, dropsy, drowsiness, edema, elongation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extension, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, grandiloquence, heaviness, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, languor, lengthening, lethargy, magnification, meteorism, oscitancy, oscitation, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pandiculation, prodigality, production, profuseness, prolongation, protraction, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, sensationalism, sleepiness, snapping point, somnolence, somnolency, strain, straining, stretch, stringing out, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, tension, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, windiness, yawning