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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Sensationalism

/sĕn-sāsh'-ən-əl-ĭzˌ-əm/ · Sen·sa·tion·al·ism · IPA /sɛnsˈeɪʃənəlˌɪzəm/
01 n. The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations tran…
  1. 1.
    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.(Metaph.)
  2. 2.
    The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.