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sensationalist|sɛnˈseɪʃənəlɪst|
[f. sensational + -ist.]
1. Philos. One who regards the senses as the ultimate source of all knowledge.
1847J. D. Morell Hist. Philos. (ed. 2) I. i. 118 Sensationalists have attempted to contravene this view. 1855Dubl. Rev. XXXVIII. 199 Locke himself did not profess to be a thorough-going Sensationalist. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. II. 228 [Hobbes] is the precursor of modern sensationalists [1846 ed. Materialism].
attrib.1860Farrar Orig. Lang. (1865) 150 We are not surprised to find that Locke was claimed as the founder..of a sensationalist school. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant Introd. iv. 60 The sensationalist view of the development of knowledge. Ibid. 61 A sensationalist theory of knowing.
2. One whose aim is to make a sensation; a sensational writer. Also attrib. or as adj.
1868Paget Lucretia 309 The circumstances of most people's every-day life are as unlike those depicted by the sensationalists as anything that can be imagined. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 3/1 The most dangerous of modern criminals..is above all a great sensationalist. 1979Guardian 24 Aug. 8/6 A sensationalist and grossly misrepresentative newspaper story. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Apr. 443/5 Compared with the style of Lady Falkender, Joe Haines et toute cette galère, so effectively convicted by their own sensationalist memoirs, the Garden Suburb was distinctly civilized in tone.
Hence sensationaˈlistic a., pertaining to or of the nature of sensationalism.
1882Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Nov. 7 His moral sense is blunted by his sensationalistic views. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 40/2 The dominant sensationalistic materialism of France. |