Sensationalism
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism. A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
Sensualism
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairsThe doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.