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English to English noun
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subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes |  | source: wordnet30
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the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | | Example: the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation
source: wordnet30
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(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | | source: wordnet30
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(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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