Sensationalism
11sensationalism — noun Date: 1846 1. empiricism that limits experience as a source of knowledge to sensation or sense perceptions 2. the use or effect of sensational subject matter or treatment • sensationalist adjective or noun • sensationalistic adjective …
12sensationalism — noun a) The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention grabbing.… …
13sensationalism — (or sensationism ) The view associated with Mach that sensations and their patterns form the only data and the only ontology that we can comprehend. The view is an extreme version of the empiricist emphasis on the priority of experience or… …
14sensationalism — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness,… …
15sensationalism — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. emotionalism, melodrama, photism, McCarthyism, sentimentality, yellow journalism; see also drama 2 , emotion . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. exaggeration, melodrama, luridness, *tabloid journalism, *keyhole journalism,… …
16sensationalism — sen|sa|tion|al|is|m [senˈseıʃənəlızəm] n [U] a way of reporting events or stories that makes them seem as strange, exciting, or shocking as possible used in order to show disapproval >sensationalist adj …
17sensationalism — sen|sa|tion|al|ism [ sen seıʃənl,ızəm ] noun uncount a way of writing or talking about events that makes them seem as exciting or shocking as possible ╾ sen|sa|tion|al|ist adjective, noun count …
18sensationalism — belief that ideas originate solely in sensation Philosophical Isms …
19sensationalism — sen sa·tion·al·ism || sen seɪʃnÉ™lɪzm n. events or material designed to shock, events or subject matter intended to excite interest …
20sensationalism — noun 1》 the deliberate use of sensational stories or language in the media. 2》 Philosophy another term for phenomenalism. Derivatives sensationalist noun & adjective sensationalistic adjective …
