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Word Meanings - SENSATIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;

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1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

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  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • SUITRESS
    A female supplicant. Rowe.
  • SUITING
    Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • SENSATION
    An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • ORIGINABLE
    Capable of being originated.
  • GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
    The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
  • INTERESTED
    1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
  • ORIGINATION
    1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
  • ORIGINANT
    Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • EXCITEFUL
    Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
  • SENSATIONALISM
    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. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
  • GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
    The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • INTENDER
    One who intends. Feltham.
  • INTERESTINGNESS
    The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • DEMISUIT
    A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
  • UNINTERESTED
    1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • UNSUIT
    Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
  • UNKNOWLEDGED
    Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.

 

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