<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.</li><li>the use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style: The cheap tabloids relied on sensationalism to increase their circulation.</li><li>Philosophy: the doctrine that the good is to be judged only by the gratification of the senses.</li><li>the doctrine that all ideas are derived from and are essentially reducible to sensations.</li><li>Psychology: sensationism.</li></ul>