different between exaggeration vs adynaton

English

Etymology

From Latin exaggeratio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæd?????e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ex?ag?ger?a?tion

Noun

exaggeration (countable and uncountable, plural exaggerations)

1. The act of heaping or piling up.
2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
3. A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

Synonyms

• overstatement
• hyperbole

Antonyms

• trivialization
• understatement

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin adynaton (“impossibility; adynaton”), or directly from its etymon Ancient Greek ???????? (adúnaton, “an impossibility; impracticality”), substantivized neuter singular of ???????? (adúnatos, “unable; that cannot be done, impossible”) + -?? (-on, suffix forming nouns). The word ???????? is derived from ?- (a-, the alpha privative, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + ??????? (dunatós, “mighty, strong; possible, practical”) (from ???????? (dúnamai, “to be able, capable; it can be, it is possible”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“to fit”)) + -??? (-tos, suffix forming verbal adjectives of possibility)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æd??n??t?n/, /-t(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æd??n?tn?/
• Hyphenation: ady?na?ton

Noun

adynaton (plural adynata or adynatons)

1. (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.

Translations

See also

• aporia
• aposiopesis

References

Further reading

• adynaton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• adynaton at OneLook Dictionary Search
• A. W. Halsall; T. V. F. Brogan (2012) , “ADYNATON”, in Roland Greene, editor, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics, 4th edition, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 9