- affectation
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- ballyhoo
- Barnumism
- bedizenment
- big talk
- blowing up
- burlesque
- caricature
- convolution
- dilatation
- dilation
- enhancement
- enlargement
- exaggerating
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expansion
- extravagance
- extreme
- flashiness
- flatulence
- flatulency
- fulsomeness
- garishness
- gaudiness
- grandiloquence
- grandioseness
- grandiosity
- heightening
- high-flown diction
- huckstering
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflatedness
- inflation
- inordinacy
- lexiphanicism
- loftiness
- luridness
- magnification
- magniloquence
- mere rhetoric
- meretriciousness
- orotundity
- ostentation
- ostentatious complexity
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overkill
- overstatement
- polysyllabic profundity
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pompous prolixity
- pontification
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- prodigality
- profuseness
- prose run mad
- puffery
- puffing up
- rhetoric
- rhetoricalness
- sensationalism
- sententiousness
- showiness
- stiltedness
- stretching
- superlative
- swelling utterance
- swollenness
- swollen phrase
- tall talk
- tortuosity
- tortuousness
- touting
- travesty
- tumidity
- tumidness
- turgescence