🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

auto-critique

Pronunciation / Transliteration: o-to-kritik

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Self-Criticism/ˈsɛlfˌkrɪtɪsɪzm/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Son auto-critique l'a aidé à progresser."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of analyzing and evaluating one's own thoughts, actions, or performance in a critical manner.

    "Her self-criticism often led her to improve her work significantly."
  2. 2

    A tendency to find fault with oneself.

    "His self-criticism made it difficult for him to accept compliments."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'self-criticism' is derived from the combination of 'self', originating from Old English 'seolf', meaning 'one's own', and 'criticism', which comes from the Greek 'kritikos', meaning 'able to judge'. The term evolved in the late 19th century to describe the act of evaluating one's own actions or thoughts critically.

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