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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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: (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only
          criterion for what is good [syn: {sensualism}]
       4: (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from
          experience [syn: {empiricism}, {empiricist philosophy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensationalism":
     Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement,
     amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, 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, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, tumidity,
     tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unreasoningness, visceralness,
     vulgarness, yellow journalism
  
  

















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