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  2. Criticism - Wikipedia

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    Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments to a written detailed response. [1] Criticism falls into several overlapping types including "theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive, or descriptive". [2]

  3. Critique - Wikipedia

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    Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse.Although critique is frequently understood as fault finding and negative judgment, [1] it can also involve merit recognition, and in the philosophical tradition it also means a methodical practice of doubt. [1]

  4. Anti-environmentalism - Wikipedia

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    Anti-environmentalism is a set of ideas and actions that oppose environmentalism as a whole or specific environmental policies or environmental initiatives.. Criticism of environmentalism can come both from outside the movement and from within, as it represents a variety of ideas and political positions.

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  6. Self-criticism - Wikipedia

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    Self-criticism in psychology is typically studied and discussed as a negative personality trait in which a person has a disrupted self-identity. [1] The opposite of self-criticism would be someone who has a coherent, comprehensive, and generally positive self-identity. Self-criticism is often associated with major depressive disorder.

  7. Criticize - Wikipedia

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    Criticize or Criticise may refer to: Criticize, the action of criticism "Criticize" (song), a 1987 Alexander O'Neal song This page was last edited on 13 ...

  8. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic criticism is a part of aesthetics concerned with critically judging beauty and ugliness, tastefulness and tastelessness, style and fashion, meaning and quality of design—and issues of human sentiment and affect (the evoking of pleasure and pain, likes and dislikes).

  9. Cynicism (contemporary) - Wikipedia

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    It is pessimistic about the capacity of human beings to make correct ethical choices; in this aspect, naiveté is an antonym. [3] Modern cynicism is sometimes regarded as a product of mass society , especially in those circumstances where the individual believes there is a conflict between society's stated motives and goals and actual motives ...