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Webster 1913 Edition
Sensationalism
Sen-sa′tion-al-ism
,Noun.
1.
(Metaph.)
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
. 2.
The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking;
as, the
. sensationalism
of a novel