anticriticism

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noun

Opposition to critical examination and review.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounanticriticism (usually uncountable, plural anticriticisms)

plural anticriticisms

  1. 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 100
    2 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 Review

    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. […]

    1988, Deborah Bright, Criticism in Your Life, Master Media Publishing Corporation
  2. 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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