overestimation

Roget category 482

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#482. Overestimation

noun

overestimation etc. v. — exaggeration etc. 549 — vanity etc. 880 — optimism, pessimism, pessimist.
much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing — storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup — fine talking.

verb

overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh, overreckon^†, overstrain, overpraise — eulogize — estimate too highly, attach too much importance to, make mountains of molehills, catch at straws — strain, magnify — exaggerate etc. 549 — set too high a value upon — think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of — outreckon^† — panegyrize^†.
extol, extol to the skies — make the most of, make the best of, make the worst of — make two bites of a cherry.
have too high an opinion of oneself etc. (vanity) 880.

adjective

overestimated etc. v. — oversensitive etc. (sensibility) 822.

phrase

all his geese are swans — parturiunt montes [Lat.].

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