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self-critique

self-critique noun: self-criticism.

Noun

self-critique (countable and uncountable, plural self-critiques)

  1. self-criticism
    • 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.2019 May 21, Israel Alves Corrêa Noletto, Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, “Language and ideology: glossopoesis as a secondary narrative framework in Le Guin’s The dispossessed”, in Acta Scientiarum....
    • Helpfulness of self-critiques for synthetic tasks, according to a critique validity oracle.2022 June 12, William Saunders, Catherine Yeh, Jeff Wu, Steven Bills, Long Ouyang, Jonathan Ward, Jan Leike, “Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators”, in arXiv, page 11

Verb

self-critique (third-person singular simple present self-critiques, present participle self-critiquing, simple past and past participle self-critiqued)

  1. (ambitransitive) To criticize oneself or something created by oneself.
    • When I’m self-critiquing my work in progress, I’m checking to see if I have created a good composition.2017 May 18, Clara Nartey, “How Self-Critiquing Your Artwork Makes You Grow”, in Clara Nartey
    • 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.2022 June 12, William Saunders, Catherine Yeh, Jeff Wu, Steven Bills, Long Ouyang, Jonathan Ward, Jan Leike, “Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators”, in arXiv, page 9

Forms of self-critique

Noun
pluralself-critiques
Verb
third-person singular presentself-critiques
present participleself-critiquing
past participleself-critiqued
pastself-critiqued

Origin of self-critique

From self- + critique.

Questions about self-critique

What does self-critique mean?
Self-critique means self-criticism.
What part of speech is self-critique?
Self-critique can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of self-critique?
The plural of self-critique is self-critiques.

Words near self-critique in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-critique (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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