Contextualizebeta

criticism

noun
/ˈkɹɪtɪsɪzm̩/

Etymology

From critic + -ism.

  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”

Definitions

  1. The act of criticising

    The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed.

    • The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.
    • Criticism has been leveled at a number of prominent figures.
    • Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.

  2. A critical observation or detailed examination and review.

    • The politician received several detailed criticisms of his stance on the issue.
    • Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the discourse of thought. A close criticism might have detected signs proving that she was intent on the latter alternative.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticriticism, autocriticism, biocriticism, constructive criticism, contextual criticism, countercriticism, cybercriticism, destructive criticism, ecocriticism, form criticism, geocriticism, gynocriticism, higher criticism, historical criticism, historic criticism, hypercriticism, literary criticism, lower criticism, metacriticism, neocriticism, New Criticism, oneirocriticism, overcriticism, self-criticism, source criticism, technocriticism, textual criticism

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at criticism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01criticism02critical03fault04culpability05blameworthiness06blameworthy07blame08censure09reprehension

A definitional loop anchored at criticism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at criticism

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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