'Sensationalism' definitions:
Definition of 'sensationalism'
(from WordNet)
noun
Subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
noun
The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism, luridness]
noun
(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism]
noun
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience [syn: empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism]
Definition of 'Sensationalism'
From: GCIDE
- Sensationalism \Sen*sa"tion*al*ism\, n.
- 1. (Metaph.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sensationalism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- Barnumism,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- Thespian art,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
Words containing 'Sensationalism'
- Sensate,
- Sensated,
- Sensating,
- Sensation,
- Sensational,
- sensationally,
- Subjective sensation,
- auditory sensation,
- cutaneous sensation,
- gustatory sensation,
- haptic sensation,
- olfactory sensation,
- pain sensation,
- painful sensation,
- pressure sensation,
- skin sensation,
- somatic sensation,
- tactile sensation,
- tactual sensation,
- taste sensation,
- touch sensation,
- visual sensation