anticritique
|an-ti-cri-tique|
/ˌæn.tiˈkrɪ.tiːk/
against a critique / counter-critique
Etymology
'anticritique' originates from the combining form 'anti-' and the noun 'critique'. 'anti-' comes from Greek 'anti' meaning 'against', and 'critique' was borrowed from French 'critique', ultimately from Greek 'kritikē'.
'anticritique' is a modern English formation combining the prefix 'anti-' with the borrowed French/English noun 'critique'. 'critique' itself came into English from French 'critique', which derives from Latin and Greek roots related to judging (Greek 'kritikos').
Initially the components meant 'against' + 'judgment' (or 'critique'); over time the combined form has come to mean either a direct rebuttal to a specific critique or a meta-level critical examination of critique as a practice.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a counter-critique; a written or spoken response that opposes or rebuts a critique.
The journal published an anticritique that systematically addressed each point of the original review.
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Noun 2
a critique of the concept or practice of critique itself; a meta-critical examination challenging the methods or aims of criticism.
Her anticritique questioned whether traditional review practices actually served creative development.
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