Lewis & Short

exaggĕrātĭo, ōnis, f. [exaggero], a heaping or raising up.

  1. * I. Lit. concr., in plur., Just. 2, 1 fin. (al. aggerationes).
  2. II. Trop., elevation, exaltation (very seldom); amplitudinem et quasi quandam exaggerationem quam altissimam animi, * Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: aliqua speciosa orationis, cumulation, exaggeration, Gell. 13, 24, 9; cf. ib. § 16.