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sensationalism


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  2.  The  practice  or  methods  of  sensational  writing  or 
  speaking;  as  the  sensationalism  of  a  novel. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sensationalism 
  n  1:  subject  matter  that  is  calculated  to  excite  and  please 
  vulgar  tastes 
  2:  the  journalistic  use  of  subject  matter  that  appeals  to 
  vulgar  tastes;  "the  tabloids  relied  on  sensationalism  to 
  maintain  their  circulation"  [syn:  {luridness}] 
  3:  the  ethical  doctrine  that  feeling  is  the  only  criterion  for 
  what  is  good  [syn:  {sensualism}] 
  4:  the  doctrine  that  knowledge  derives  from  experience  [syn:  {empiricism}, 
  {empiricist  philosophy}] 




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