sensationalityEtymologyFrom sensational + -ity.nounThe quality of being sensational.“I began to borrow the striking phraseology of N. Parker Willis, to experience a notion of no-leggedness, succeeded by an acute pit-of-the-stomach-rheumatic-sensationality, and a general savage impulse in the direction of chaotic pitch-a-head-a-tiveness.”Something or someone sensational.“The special sensationalities were the big drum, (as large as an ordinary room,) the big organ, and the anvil chorus.”