Critique vs Criterion - What's the difference?
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The art of criticism.
An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
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* Addison
(obsolete) A critic; one who criticises.
* Bishop Lincoln
(US) To review something.
A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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As nouns the difference between critique and criterion
is that critique is the art of criticism while criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.As a verb critique
is to review something.critique
English
Noun
(wikipedia critique) (en noun)citation
- I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal.
- a question among critiques in the ages to come
Verb
- I want you to critique this new idea of mine.
External links
* * ----criterion
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Alternative forms
* (nonstandard) * criteriumNoun
(criteria)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion ” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
