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noun

Sensationalist n.

(Metaph.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

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Etymology of 'Sensationalist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sensationalist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Hunter's startling statement that there were ten million persons in the United States in poverty, many people thought that he must be a sensationalist of the worst type. It could not be true, they thought. But when they read the startling array of facts upon which that estimate was based they modified their opinion. It is significant, I think, that there has been ...

— The Common Sense of Socialism - A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg • John Spargo

... The sensationalist philosophy is inaugurated by JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE (1709-51) rather than by Condillac. A physician, making observations on his own case during an attack of fever, he arrived at the conclusion that ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... devout kind. In some way we must be fallen angels, one with intelligence as such; and a great disdain for empiricism of the sensationalist sort has always characterized this school of thought, which, on the whole, has reigned supreme at Oxford and in the Scottish universities until the ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

Words linked to "Sensationalist" : publicizer, sensationalism, publiciser, publicist