Definition for Sensationalism:

• The practice of writing or speaking so as to work on the feelings.

Synonyms for Sensationalism:

• n.

  •emotion (noun)
  • emotionalism.
  •emotionalism (noun)
  • melodrama,
  • yellow journalism.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • excess,
  • tall story,
  • yellow journalism,
  • Puffery,
  • whopper,
  • fish story,
  • boasting,
  • overemphasis,
  • hyperbole,
  • aggrandizement,
  • fabrication,
  • tabloid journalism,
  • hype.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • flamboyance,
  • bravado,
  • splendor,
  • ostentation,
  • Bravura,
  • showmanship,
  • dramatics,
  • jauntiness,
  • Flagrancy,
  • blatancy,
  • grandiloquence,
  • exhibitionism,
  • flourish,
  • vanity,
  • pageantry,
  • flashiness,
  • grandiosity,
  • snazziness,
  • pomposity,
  • parade,
  • shamelessness,
  • histrionics,
  • pomp,
  • garishness,
  • ornateness,
  • opulence,
  • splashiness,
  • affectedness,
  • pomp and circumstance,
  • fuss,
  • showiness,
  • swaggar,
  • formality,
  • rakishness,
  • dash,
  • boastfulness,
  • gaudiness.
  •sensationalism (noun)
  • luridness,
  • empiricism,
  • sensualism,
  • empiricist philosophy.
  •yellow journalism (noun)
  • yellow journalism,
  • tabloid journalism.

• Other synonyms:

  •overstatement
  • exaggeration.
  •Other relevant words:
  • enlargement,
  • content,
  • dilatation,
  • severity,
  • spiel,
  • magniloquence,
  • ballyhoo,
  • brazenness,
  • Touting,
  • philosophical theory,
  • badness,
  • tumidity,
  • stretching,
  • Sententiousness,
  • fish story,
  • empiricist philosophy,
  • extravagance,
  • Lexiphanicism,
  • puffing up,
  • feeling,
  • Histrionism,
  • animalism,
  • demonstrativeness,
  • glare,
  • tortuosity,
  • heightening,
  • journalese,
  • loudness,
  • irritation,
  • tumidness,
  • casus belli,
  • cogency,
  • caricature,
  • yellow journalism,
  • theatricalism,
  • hype,
  • rigorousness,
  • pretentiousness,
  • dilation,
  • grimness,
  • extravaganza,
  • Extravagation,
  • tall story,
  • sharpness,
  • stiltedness,
  • substance,
  • blowing up,
  • philosophy,
  • dramatic irony,
  • expansion,
  • positivism,
  • love interest,
  • positive,
  • message,
  • enhancement,
  • profuseness,
  • logical positivism,
  • fairness,
  • gaudery,
  • overstatement,
  • magnification,
  • experimentalism,
  • grandioseness,
  • validity,
  • amplification,
  • staginess,
  • Atomism,
  • overemphasis,
  • pontification,
  • melodrama,
  • positivist,
  • rhetoric,
  • fulsomeness,
  • boasting,
  • overkill,
  • pallor,
  • rigour,
  • affectation,
  • overestimation,
  • glitter,
  • gruesomeness,
  • stiffness,
  • adversity,
  • asperity,
  • lividness,
  • theatrics,
  • Vulgarness,
  • pretension,
  • convolution,
  • turgidity,
  • exorbitance,
  • Turgescence,
  • paleness,
  • passion,
  • quackery,
  • theatricality,
  • inflatedness,
  • whopper,
  • pompousness,
  • dramatic art,
  • meretriciousness,
  • thrill,
  • thespian art,
  • panache,
  • flatulence,
  • Orotundity,
  • tawdriness,
  • Emotiveness,
  • prodigality,
  • empiricism,
  • superlative,
  • sensualness,
  • sensualism,
  • exaggeration,
  • philosophical doctrine,
  • crudeness,
  • tall talk,
  • big talk,
  • jazziness,
  • colorfulness,
  • Bedizenment,
  • sportiness,
  • anger,
  • gaiety,
  • Exaggerating,
  • emotionalism,
  • dramatic structure,
  • obtrusiveness,
  • Emotivity,
  • Huckstering,
  • theatrical,
  • dazzle,
  • Puffery,
  • Inordinacy,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • burlesque,
  • Theatricals,
  • dramaturgy,
  • loftiness,
  • gorgeousness,
  • lividity,
  • aggrandizement,
  • excess,
  • emotionality,
  • extreme,
  • pyrotechnics,
  • fabrication,
  • luridness,
  • ghastliness,
  • inflation,
  • flatulency,
  • travesty,
  • emotional appeal,
  • tortuousness,
  • human interest,
  • tabloid journalism,
  • melodramatics,
  • sensuality,
  • hyperbole.