self-criticism

[self-krit-uh-siz-uhm, self-] Origin

self-crit·i·cism

[self-krit-uh-siz-uhm, self-]
noun
the act or fact of being self-critical.

Origin:
1855–60
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self-criticism
 
n
unfavourable or severe judgement of oneself, one's abilities, one's actions, etc

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self-criticism
1857, from self + criticism (q.v.). First attested in George Eliot; communist party sense is attested from 1933.
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