NOUN | communication | sensationalism | subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes |
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communication | sensationalism, luridness | the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | |
cognition | sensationalism, sensualism | (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | |
cognition | sensationalism, empiricism, empiricist philosophy | (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience |
Sounds | sehnsey'shahnahlih.zahm | |
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Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... |
Meaning | subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes. | |
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Attributes | sensational | Causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion |
unsensational | not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction | |
Broader | message, content, subject matter, substance | What a communication that is about something is about |
Spanish | sensacionalismo | |
Catalan | sensacionalisme | |
Adjectives | sensationalistic | typical of tabloids |
Nouns | sensationalist | someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention |
Meaning | The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes. | |
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Example | "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" | |
Synonym | luridness | |
Broader | journalese | The style in which newspapers are written |
Adjectives | sensationalistic | typical of tabloids |
Nouns | sensationalist | someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention |
Meaning | (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. | |
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Synonym | sensualism | |
Category | philosophy | The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
Broader | philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory | A doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy |
Spanish | sensacionalismo, sensualismo | |
Catalan | sensacionalisme, sensualisme |
Meaning | (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience. | |
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Synonyms | empiricism, empiricist philosophy | |
Category | philosophy | The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
Narrower | British empiricism | The predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century |
experimentalism | An empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | |
positivism, logical positivism | The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | |
Broader | philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory | A doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy |
Spanish | empiricismo, empirismo, filosofía empírica, sensacionalismo | |
Catalan | empirisme |
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