literary criticism

Questions about literary criticism

What does literary criticism mean?

literary criticism means "a written evaluation of a work of literature". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for literary criticism?

Close synonyms include criticism, lit crit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is literary criticism a common word?

literary criticism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.