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Sensationalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism. countable, uncountable

    "Newspaper articles also were generally positive in tone, although a tendency towards sensationalism means that the spread of hybrid forms is occasionally touted as the universal language of the future."

  2. 2
    (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience wordnet
  3. 3
    A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good wordnet
  5. 5
    the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes wordnet
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  1. 6
    subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes wordnet

Etymology

From sensational + -ism.

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