exaggerated features
Amplified physical characteristics
Exaggerated features are physical characteristics depicted or described as larger, more prominent, or more extreme than in reality.
The phrase appears most often in art and animation, where artists deliberately distort proportions for effect: The caricature showed him with exaggerated features—enormous nose, tiny eyes.
Comic book heroes have exaggerated features suggesting strength; cartoon villains have them suggesting menace.
The term also describes real faces with unusually prominent characteristics.
- bulgingSwelling outward visibly
- big eyesEnlarged ocular appearance
- overactingExcessive theatrical performance
- ham it upPerform with exaggerated theatrics
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
bloated · caricature · hyperbole · funhouse · fish eye lens · bobblehead · stylization · magnification · distortion · absurdity · over the top · dramatization · comic relief · contorted · cartoonish · larger than life · disproportion · wide-eyed
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- caricaturecaricature art, caricatures, caricaturist, caricaturists, caricature artists
- ExpressionismEdvard Munch, The Scream, Der Blaue Reiter, German Expressionism, woodcuts
- sports cartoonsbig heads, funny faces
- Gothic Architecturepointed arches, flying buttress, flying buttresses, pointed arch, rose window
exaggerated featuresrealistic portrayal
Accurate, believable representation
anatomically correct · naturalism · realism · verisimilitude · documentary style
exaggerated featuresrealism
Accepting things as they are
naturalism · photorealism · hyperrealism · documentary style · trompe l'oeil