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anticriticism

noun

Etymology

From anti- + criticism.

  1. derived from κριτικός — “of or for judging, able to discern”
  2. derived from criticus
  3. borrowed from critique
  4. formed as criticism — “critic + -ism”
  5. prefixed as anticriticism — “anti + criticism”

Definitions

  1. Opposition to critical examination and review.

    • Let me recommend a general Anticriticism, a universal medicine or panacea, to put a stop to all anonymous reviewing, whether it praises the bad or blames the good:
    • The anticriticism movement began to take shape even before the worldwide political and military upheavals of the mid-1990s. Earlier in that decade, both management and labor had argued for the abolition of performance reviews. […]

  2. Opposition to criticism or criticizing.

    • So-called anticriticism clauses or gag rules should be prohibited as a condition of plan participation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA