Symptom vs Criterion - What's the difference?
symptom | criterion |
(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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As nouns the difference between symptom and criterion
is that symptom is symptom, sign while criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.symptom
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See alsoAntonyms
* Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causeDerived terms
* symptomatology * symptomlessExternal 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?}}