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sensationist|sɛnˈseɪʃənɪst|
[f. sensation + -ist.]
1. One who deals in sensation; a sensational novelist, dramatist, or journalist.
1861W. H. Russell in Times 24 Sept., ‘Vult decipi, decipiatur’ is the motto of the Sensationists. 1863Mansel Lett., Lect., etc. (1873) 248 (art. Sensation Novels) To these specimens of the sensationist's power of making, may we venture to add one more as a sample of his ability in marring? 1864G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 27 Of late we have been handed over..to the tender mercies of the sensationists both on and off the stage.
2. = sensationalist 1. Also attrib.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 277 Now most believers in the ego make the same mistake as the associationists and sensationists whom they oppose. 1942E. G. Boring Sensation & Perception i. 4 An empiricist is apt to be a sensationist, because it is by way of the senses that the mind has experience of the external world. 1953K. Britton J. S. Mill vi. 192 From Locke to James Mill, there continued a complicated debate about the way in which we know physical objects; Reid and Hamilton providing an intelligent opposition to the sensationist school.
Hence sensatioˈnistic a.
1936Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 97 The agreement, in principle, to discard the sensationistic hypothesis. |