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sensationalism
noun
1 sensationalism
Subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes.
Roget 824:
excitation of feeling;
mental excitement;
suscitation†,
galvanism,
stimulation,
piquance,
piquancy,
provocation,
inspiration,
calling forth,
infection;
animation,
agitation,
perturbation;
subjugation,
fascination,
intoxication;
enravishment†;
entrancement;
pressure,
tension,
high pressure.
unction,
impressiveness
etc.
adj..
trail of temper,
casus belli [Lat.];
irritation
etc.
(anger)
900;
passion
etc.
(state of excitability)
825;
thrill
etc.
(feeling)
821;
repression of feeling
etc.
826;
sensationalism,
yellow journalism.
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2 sensationalism
The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes:
— The tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation.
synonym: luridness.
3 sensationalism
philosophy The ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good.
synonym: sensualism.
Polish: sensualizm
4 sensationalism
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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