SENSATIONALISM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.