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lit crit

lit crit is the clipping of literary criticism.

Meaning of literary criticism

Noun

literary criticism (uncountable)

  1. The study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
    • In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    Synonyms:
    lit crit

Questions about lit crit

What is lit crit the clipping of?
Lit crit is the clipping of literary criticism.

Words near lit crit in the dictionary

  1. Lisztian
  2. Lisztomania
  3. Liszts
  4. lit
  5. lit a fire under
  6. lit crit
  7. lit de justice
  8. lit fic
  9. lit flick
  10. lit flicks
  11. Lit Hum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lit crit (page history and authors); literary criticism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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