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单词 sensationalize
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sensationalizev.

Brit. /s(ɛ)nˈseɪʃn̩əlʌɪz/, /s(ɛ)nˈseɪʃn̩l̩ʌɪz/, /s(ɛ)nˈseɪʃənl̩ʌɪz/, /s(ɛ)nˈseɪʃənəlʌɪz/, U.S. /sɛnˈseɪʃənlˌaɪz/, /sənˈseɪʃənlˌaɪz/, /sɛnˈseɪʃnəˌlaɪz/, /sənˈseɪʃnəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– sensationalise, 1800s– sensationalize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sensational adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < sensational adj. + -ize suffix.
1. transitive. Philosophy. To explain or account for in terms of the senses or sensation. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1847 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 30 There is..no foundation for the opinion that he [sc. Locke] materialized or sensationalized..all these operations.
1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 33 Individualize your concepts, does not mean sensationalize them, unless the senses are the only sources of presentation.
1893 A. C. Armstrong tr. R. Falckenberg Hist. Mod. Philos. ix. 369 Locke is said to have sensationalized the concepts of the understanding.
2008 W. A. De Vries in D. Moyar & M. Quante Hegel's Phenomenol. of Spirit iv. 74 Kant believed that his predecessors had all either intellectualized appearances or sensationalized concepts.
2.
a. transitive. To strongly affect or shock (a person) by means of literature, journalism, drama, etc., of a sensational, lurid, or melodramatic nature. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > turn into an object of sentiment [verb (transitive)] > excite emotion artificially
sensationalize1862
1862 Twice Week 25 Oct. 399/3 We are not ‘sensationalised’ by stabs and shots and shrieks and plunges.
1864 Liverpool Mercury 24 Oct. 3/4 The panorama goes to sensationalise the London people—to delight and astonish them, of course.
1891 Scroll Feb. 250 It is said that the Rev. A. C. White absolutely sensationalized Amesbury by his impersonation of ‘Miles Standish’ in the comic opera ‘Priscilla’.
b. transitive. To present or report (something) in a sensational, lurid, or melodramatic manner. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > make sensational or dramatic [verb (transitive)]
theatricize1852
sensationalize1863
jazz1917
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)] > in representation
paintc1390
fucate1535
flatter1581
embroider1614
over-picturea1616
heighten1731
overpaint1749
overtell1755
overcolour1811
overdrawa1817
dramatize1823
sensationalize1863
overdress1866
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)] > sensationalize
sensationalize1863
1863 Caledonian Mercury 24 Mar. The same thing cannot be said of his present effort to sensationalise one of the noblest works of Scotland's greatest novelist.
1892 Moonshine 26 Mar. 146/2 The newspapers—which should have been on our side—sensationalised for the other.
1944 Times 31 Mar. 18/3 A tendency to sensationalize the music, which used not to be a mark of her playing in the past.
1987 Hist. Teacher 21 148 The book does not sensationalize. It approaches the war neutrally, reserving both respectful dignity and sorrow for those caught up in it.
2013 J. Market Hooked in Film p. vii These stories are often sensationalized to capture the public's attention.

Derivatives

senˌsationaliˈzation n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > sensationalizing
sensationalization1921
tabloidization1926
1921 Smart Set May 136/2 The present play is..a sensationalization of the aberrant young girl episode in her play, ‘He and She.’
1977 Lancet 27 Aug. 449/1 The sensationalisation of the ‘opium vice’ by writers such as De Quincey.
2010 Near Eastern Archaeol. 71 172/1 Eric Cline deplores media's distortion and sensationalization of archaeological fact.
senˈsationalized adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > extreme > done to extremes
overdoneOE
overacted1628
stagy1860
sensationalized1879
1879 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 8 Jan. 14/3 A more or less sensationalized theme.
1916 G. A. England Golden Blight xxxii. 290 The wires of the now thoroughly sensationalized International Press Combine.
1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 440 A sensationalized story set largely in the U.S. Senate and the White House.
2015 S. D. Kennedy-Nolle Writing Reconstruction 297 A sordid family brawl, which received sensationalized press coverage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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