- the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
- the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding.
- the act or art of analyzing and evaluating or judging the quality of a literary or artistic work, musical performance, art exhibit, dramatic production, etc.
- a critical comment, article, or essay; critique.
- any of various methods of studying texts or documents for the purpose of dating or reconstructing them, evaluating their authenticity, analyzing their content or style, etc.: historical criticism; literary criticism.
- investigation of the text, origin, etc., of literary documents, especially Biblical ones: textual criticism.
- the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc
- the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
- the occupation of a critic
- a work that sets out to evaluate or analyse
- the investigation of a particular text, with related material, in order to establish an authentic text
