Sensationalism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENSATIONALISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the belief that ideas originate solely in sensation
• (especially in journalism) the presentation of stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy
• 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.
• The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
• subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
• the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
• (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• empiricism that limits experience as a source of knowledge to sensation or sense perceptions

Words related to SENSATIONALISM

sensationalisms17 sensationalist14 sensationalists15 sensationism14

Words that contain SENSATIONALISM

sensationalisms17

How to use SENSATIONALISM in a sentence

• Throughout, our story has been the sensationalism of angry fate, and even less likely to be believed than the work of fiction.
• In Descartes the empiricism and sensationalism of the English is confronted by rationalism, to which the great thinkers of the Continent continue loyal.
• Besides Hume and Spinoza, the sensationalism of Bonnet and the criticism of Kant had made the most lasting impression on Jacobi.
• The press exploits for its benefit human silliness and ignorance and vulgarity and sensationalism, and, in exploiting it, feeds it.
• You could not escape from sensationalism in a sensational world.
• He also was affected by physical science, and he found in sensationalism an element for his system.
• I have sought to confine myself to a matter-of-fact description of this gloomy subject, and to avoid anything that could be construed into mere sensationalism.
• So the painters began to search for sensationalism of subject, and the typical salon picture, no longer decorously pompous, began to deal in blood and horror and sensuality.
• They are clean and wholesome, free from sensationalism, absorbing from the first chapter to the last.
• In his treatises on psychology and metaphysics, he originated a theory of sensationalism akin to that of Locke.
• Meyerbeer thus drew the art into a new channel, and, unluckily, this new tendency was not so much in the direction of elevation of style as in sensationalism.
• Locke cannot be truly regarded as the author of sensationalism any more than of idealism.
• Even the most prominent name in German music at this writing is that of a man who is notorious as an expert salesman of symphonic sensationalism.
• Perhaps of all these factors the press, in its wild gamble to make money out of sensationalism, is most to blame.
• I have observed that Viscount JELLICOE avoids any approach to sensationalism.
• They are clean and wholesome and free from sensationalism.
• Hysterical sensationalism is the very poorest weapon wherewith to fight for lasting righteousness.
• Girls who are fond of adventure will thoroughly enjoy reading these books, which are wholesome and free from sensationalism.
• Canadian journals, however, have not yet descended to the degraded sensationalism of New York papers, too many of which circulate in Canada to the public detriment.
• One would have supposed that after that the sensationalism of events would cease.
• Sometimes a spirit of contradiction has been aroused, and a captious tendency, or a love of excitement and sensationalism, with a wish to see the other side.
• While the picturesque old-time war reporter has almost disappeared, the moving picture man has inherited all his courage, patience, sensationalism, and spirit of adventure.

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