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sensationalism
[ sen-sey-shuh-nl-iz-uhm ]
noun
- subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
- the use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style:
The cheap tabloids relied on sensationalism to increase their circulation.
- Philosophy.
- the doctrine that the good is to be judged only by the gratification of the senses.
- the doctrine that all ideas are derived from and are essentially reducible to sensations.
- Psychology. sensationism.
sensationalism
/ 蝉蓻苍藞蝉别瑟蕛蓹苍蓹藢濒瑟锄蓹尘 /
noun
- the use of sensational language, etc, to arouse an intense emotional response
- such sensational matter itself
- Also calledsensualism philosophy
- the doctrine that knowledge cannot go beyond the analysis of experience
- ethics the doctrine that the ability to gratify the senses is the only criterion of goodness
- psychol the theory that all experience and mental life may be explained in terms of sensations and remembered images
- aesthetics the theory of the beauty of sensuality in the arts
Derived Forms
- 蝉别苍藢蝉补迟颈辞苍补濒藞颈蝉迟颈肠, adjective
- 蝉别苍藞蝉补迟颈辞苍补濒颈蝉迟, nounadjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉别苍路蝉补顎僼颈辞苍路补濒路颈蝉迟 noun adjective
- 蝉别苍路蝉补顎卼颈辞苍路补濒路颈蝉顎僼颈肠 adjective
- non顎叢醣鸩月凡醪诡卼颈辞苍路补濒路颈蝉顎僼颈肠 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sensationalism1
Example Sentences
Edison has objected to The Times鈥 identifying Calderon as a former executive for the utility, claiming on its website that the news organization is 鈥渃hoosing sensationalism over facts.鈥
"Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year," she said.
Though it was inspired by a spate of real-world knife attacks 鈥 the sort of material that might invite sensationalism or prompt a heavy-handed lecture 鈥 鈥淎dolescence鈥 avoids both.
The Times quotes one man who intends to vote for Trump who said, 鈥溾橧 think the media blows stuff out of proportion for sensationalism.鈥欌
For decades, the American news media with its endless 24/7 coverage, sensationalism, traffic-chasing, and an 鈥渋f it bleeds it leads鈥 ethos has contributed to this problem instead of intervening against it.
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