Meanings
plural anticriticisms
- uncountableusuallyOpposition 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:
1891, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays, page 1002 more examples
A facile resignation, a crude anti-intellectualism and anticriticism is in the air. It can be frankly and grossly Philistine; it can be a blithe defense of amateurism, impressionism, enthusiasm; it can be the skepticism and historical relativism […]
1971, The Centennial ReviewThe 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. […]
1988, Deborah Bright, Criticism in Your Life, Master Media Publishing Corporation - uncountableusuallyOpposition to criticism or criticizing.
So-called anticriticism clauses or gag rules should be prohibited as a condition of plan participation.
1996, Stanley B. Jones, Marion Ein Lewin, Improving the medicare market: adding choice and protections, page 100
Origin
Translations
Portuguese anticriticismo
- anticriticismoopposition to criticism
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