"sensationalization" means presenting information about something in a sensational way
"sensationalization" from "to sensationalize" (to present information about something in a sensational way )
E.g. the papers want to sensationalize the tragedy that my family has suffered
"to sensationalize" from "sensation"
"sensation":
1: a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body // the capacity to have such feelings or perceptions // an inexplicable awareness or impression
2: a widespread reaction of interest and excitement // a person, object, or event that arouses such interest and excitement
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin sensatio(n-)
"sensate" (adj) - perceiving or perceived by the senses
E.g. you are immersed in an illusionary, yet sensate, world
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin sensatus ‘having senses’
"to sense"
perceive by a sense or senses // be aware of // be aware that something is the case without being able to define exactly how one knows // (of a machine or similar device) detect
ORIGIN from Latin sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent
"sense"
1) a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
2) a feeling that something is the case ■ an awareness or feeling that one is in a specified state ■ sense of a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something
3) a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems ■ a reasonable or comprehensible rationale
4) a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning
5) chiefly Mathematics Physics a property, e.g., direction of motion, distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc., that differ only in that each is the reverse of the other
ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’