Sensationalism Synonyms

sĕn-sāshə-nə-lĭzəm
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. emotionalism
  2. melodrama
  3. photism
  4. mccarthyism
  5. sensualism
  6. empiricism
  7. sentimentality
  8. yellow-journalism
  9. empiricist philosophy
The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. luridness

Words Related to Sensationalism

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Sensationalism Sentence Examples

  • Of nearly all the books in this class it may be said that they deal largely in sensationalism and pornography, though it does not follow that their language is either coarse or licentious.

  • A larger one, holding 5000 persons, was built for him in 1873, but even this could not contain the crowds attracted by his eloquence and sensationalism.

  • In France, the home of Cartesian realism, after the vicissitudes of sensationalism and materialism, which became connected in French the French mind with the Revolution, the spirit of Descartes revived in the 19th century in the spiritualistic realism of Victor Cousin.

  • It is important to notice the energy of his declaration against the argument of ontology, and also against Condillac's sensationalism.

  • It should be noticed that Hartley's sensationalism is far from leading him to exalt the corporeal pleasures.

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