Hyperbolic vs. Hyperbole — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.

Hyperbole (, listen) (adjective form hyperbolic, listen) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (literally 'growth').

Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola.

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane.

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

Of or relating to a hyperbolic function

Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

Of or relating to hyperbole.

(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.

Using hyperbole: exaggerated.

A hyperbola.

Having a saturation exceeding 100%.

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.

Extravagant exaggeration

Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.

Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.

Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.

(topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature.

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression.

Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness;

Of or relating to a hyperbola;