Usually means: Exaggeration to provoke public interest.
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  1. sensationalism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sensationalism: Merriam-Webster
  3. sensationalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sensationalism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sensationalism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sensationalism: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sensationalism, sensationalism: Wordnik
  8. sensationalism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sensationalism: Wiktionary
  10. sensationalism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sensationalism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sensationalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sensationalism: Dictionary.com
  14. sensationalism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sensationalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sensationalism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sensationalism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sensationalism: Rhymezone
  19. Sensationalism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sensationalism: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sensationalism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. sensationalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sensationalism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sensationalism: Legal dictionary

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  1. sensationalism: Encyclopedia

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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. Sensationalism: Urban Dictionary

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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:  (philosophy) A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.

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