Word.ws English Dictionary

self-criticisms

self-criticisms is the plural of self-criticism.

Meaning of self-criticism

Noun

self-criticism (usually uncountable, plural self-criticisms)

  1. (usually) Criticism of oneself.
  2. (usually) A practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.
    • […] commit self-criticism and allow other people to criticize him. If we do all these things, then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism. The most important thing is consistency. If you make a promise you must keep it[…]1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books

Questions about self-criticisms

What is self-criticisms the plural of?
Self-criticisms is the plural of self-criticism.

Words near self-criticisms in the dictionary

  1. self-creates
  2. self-creating
  3. self-crit
  4. self-critical
  5. self-criticism
  6. self-criticisms
  7. self-critique
  8. self-critiqued
  9. self-critiques
  10. self-critiquing
  11. self-cultivation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-criticisms (page history and authors); self-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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-criticisms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-criticisms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.