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sensationalism

noun

Etymology

From sensational + -ism.

  1. derived from sensus
  2. suffixed as sensational — “sensation + al”
  3. suffixed as sensationalism — “sensational + ism”

Definitions

  1. The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject…

    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.

    • 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. A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sensationalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA