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anticriticism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + criticism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Opposition to critical examination and 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
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (uncountable, usually) Opposition 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:

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pt anticriticismo (opposition to criticism)