Criticize vs Sensitize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between criticize and sensitize

is that criticize is to find fault (with something) while sensitize is to make increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

* criticise (UK )

(criticiz) (transitive'' or ''intransitive )

to find fault (with something)

to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults

* find fault * shoot down * trash out * fustigate * drub * excoriate * run down

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To make increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues.

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