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sensationalize, v.|sɛnˈseɪʃənəlaɪz|
[f. sensational a. + -ize.]
trans. To make sensational.
1. nonce-use. To restrict (concepts) to what is given in sensation.
1851Mansel Proleg. Log. 33 Individualize your concepts, does not mean sensationalize them, unless the senses are the only sources of presentation.
2. a. To subject to the influence of ‘sensation’ or factitious emotion. b. To exaggerate in a sensational manner.
1863Reader 31 Oct. 507/2 Possibly we should learn in time to imitate the German example [in establishing dramatic academies], and another generation might refuse to be sensationalized, elevated and generally educated by upholstery, ‘headers’, and ghosts. 1869Athenæum 18 Dec. 824 But in that class of specimens..are none of the merits of the above, while all their faults are vulgarized and sensationalized. 1900Daily News 18 Dec. 5/6 The Paris Press as a whole does not sensationalise De Wet's raid, and the recent success of Delarey.
Hence senˌsationaliˈzation.
1955Times 15 Aug. 7/5 By silence, and by mistrust of any publicity save that in the jargon of scientific journals, science has succeeded (in the words of Rutherford) in its own ‘sensationalization’. 1977Lancet 27 Aug. 449/1 It fell into disuse with..the sensationalisation of the ‘opium vice’ by writers such as De Quincey.
Add: senˈsationalized ppl. a.
1963Ann. Reg. 1962 440 A sensationalized story set largely in the U.S. Senate and the White House. 1982Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 6/3 The clamour for legislation..was often simply the reaction of well-meaning people to sensationalised and abbreviated accounts of particular cases. |