Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-critique

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables: self---cri-tique
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To criticize oneself or something created by oneself.

Example Sentences

"It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation."
"Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle."
"When I’m self-critiquing my work in progress, I’m checking to see if I have created a good composition."
"Larger models’ critiques are rated as more helpful by humans. This holds even if making the answer distribution correspondingly difficult to critique by asking them to self-critique."

Etymology

From self- + critique.

Usage

Inflected Forms

self-critiques (plural) self-critiques (present, singular) self-critiquing (participle, present) self-critiqued (participle, past) self-critiqued (past)

Questions

What does self-critique mean?: self-criticism
Where does self-critique come from?: From self- + critique.

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