criticism
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əˌsɪz noun
1.
the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
2.
the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding.
3.
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.
5.
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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| 1. | the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc |
| 2. | the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc |
| 3. | the occupation of a critic |
| 4. | a work that sets out to evaluate or analyse |
| 5. | Also called: textual criticism the investigation of a particular text, with related material, in order to establish an authentic text |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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criticism
the analysis and evaluation of works of art. More subtly, art criticism is often tied to theory; it is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular work of art from a theoretical perspective and to establish its significance in the history of art.
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Example sentences
By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to cultivate our narcissism without the risk of disapproval or criticism.
But in the criticism or interpretation of literature the writer should be careful to avoid dropping into summary.
They must also avoid the jargon of contemporary academic criticism and write in a public idiom.
But public fascination also provided a window for criticism, and ultrasound elicited substantial ethical deliberation.
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