criticism
Americannoun
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the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
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the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding.
- Synonyms:
- animadversion, stricture
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the act or art of analyzing and evaluating or judging the quality of a literary or artistic work, musical performance, art exhibit, dramatic production, etc.
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any of various methods of studying texts or documents for the purpose of dating or reconstructing them, evaluating their authenticity, analyzing their content or style, etc..
historical criticism; literary criticism.
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investigation of the text, origin, etc., of literary documents, especially Biblical ones.
textual criticism.
noun
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the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc
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the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
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the occupation of a critic
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a work that sets out to evaluate or analyse
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Also called: textual criticism. the investigation of a particular text, with related material, in order to establish an authentic text
Related Words
See review.
Other Word Forms
- countercriticism noun
- overcriticism noun
- precriticism noun
Etymology
Origin of criticism
Example Sentences
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"To be honest, I don't really know what type of criticism people are talking about, but since I've been here - and I've been here during Ramadan - it's been all right for me," he replied.
From BBC
I dismissed these misguided reactions, and the silly underlying implication that any criticism of a cleric regime puts all Muslims in an unflattering light.
In recent years the Welsh government has faced criticism for the time it has taken to plug what has been seen as a gap in environmental protections after Brexit.
From BBC
But for all the criticism of Block’s inefficiencies, the “head count actions cannot be explained by ‘bloat’” as “that problem was somewhat solved from 2023-2025,” Rawat added.
From MarketWatch
One ad rejected the criticism, saying: “We’re not an out-of-date, birdbrain of a store.”
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