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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-criticism
noun
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▪ But it is his streak of self-criticism that should ensure that those gifts come to the fore.
▪ Her self-criticism of the paternalistic atmosphere which she allowed to engulf her in her early insecurity is devastating.
▪ In a world filled with guilt and bitterness, there is no room for self-criticism or objective analysis.
▪ It brought all the agonies of doubt and self-criticism which we can too easily forget.
▪ Now is the day for self-criticism.
▪ The Bank has a tradition of self-criticism.
▪ These are welcome indications of the academic community enhancing its capacity to engage collectively in self-criticism.
▪ When you come down on him too hard, you may only intensify his own self-criticism and probably even self-hatred.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-criticism

1780, from self- + criticism. First attested in George Eliot; communist party sense is attested from 1933.

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self-criticism

n. Criticism of oneself

WordNet
self-criticism

n. criticism of yourself

Wikipedia
Self-criticism

Self-criticism involves how an individual evaluates his or her self. Self-criticism is typically studied and discussed as a negative personality trait in which a person has a disrupted self identity. The opposite of self-criticism would be someone who has a coherent, comprehensive, and generally positive self-identity. Self-criticism is often associated with Major Depressive Disorder. Some theorists define self-criticism as a mark of a certain type of depression (introjective depression), and in general people with depression tend to be more self critical than those without depression. People with depression are typically higher on self-criticism than people without depression, and even after depressive episodes they will continue to display self-critical personalities. Much of the scientific focus on self-criticism is because of its association with depression. Self-criticism is therefore not only an important facet of personality psychology, but is intimately tied to depression. Self-criticism is often a part of the experience of depression, and a focus on this personality trait could improve how we deal with and treat that disorder.

Usage examples of "self-criticism".

The frankness of such a secretly outspoken thought could not go without some derisive self-criticism.

The purpose of self-criticism, Misha said, was to help each Komsomol and Young Pioneer to perfect himself, to see his own defects and to rid himself of them as quickly as possible.

Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science.

The tennis player does better when he/she gives up self-criticism and awfulizing (Gallwey, 1974).

It sits there admiring itself, without a scintilla of self-criticism, unable to look at hard troths along that highway.