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sensationalism

sensationalism noun: 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.

Noun

sensationalism (countable and uncountable, plural sensationalisms)

  1. 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.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 9
  2. A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
    Synonyms:
    sensualism

sensationalism meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

sensationalism in Tamil

அரசியல் கிளர்ச்சிப் பாங்கு

sensationalism in Urdu

حسیت پسندی, سنسی خیزی

sensationalism in Malayalam

ഉദ്വേഗജനകം, സ്തോഭജനകത്വം

sensationalism in Kannada

ಉದ್ರೇಕಕಾರಿತ್ವ

Synonyms of sensationalism

Antonyms

Forms of sensationalism

pluralsensationalisms

Origin of sensationalism

From sensational + -ism.

Questions about sensationalism

What does sensationalism mean?
Sensationalism means 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.
What is sensationalism in Tamil?
Sensationalism in Tamil is அரசியல் கிளர்ச்சிப் பாங்கு. See Sensationalism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sensationalism?
Sensationalism is a noun.
What is the plural of sensationalism?
The plural of sensationalism is sensationalisms.

Words near sensationalism in the dictionary

  1. sensationalisation
  2. sensationalise
  3. sensationalised
  4. sensationalises
  5. sensationalising
  6. sensationalism
  7. sensationalisms
  8. sensationalist
  9. sensationalistic
  10. sensationalistically
  11. sensationalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sensationalism (page history and authors); sensationalism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensationalism (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensationalism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sensationalism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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