censoriousness
- noun
- /sɛnˈsɔriəsnəs/
- Formal
:
censura
- The teacher's censoriousness toward students' mistakes discouraged them from participating in class.
Examples
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In her censoriousness, she often criticized the choices of her friends rather than supporting them.
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Spasms against popular culture go hand in hand with government censoriousness, and always have.
Blog text (10) -
Censoriousness is unknown in Athens.
Academic text (1991) -
And here's why I say that this censoriousness taking place and it is not just on the left, there is right wing cancel culture too.
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The pupils must never be discouraged, and censoriousness must be avoided like the plague.
Academic text (1996) -
His constant censoriousness makes it difficult for anyone to feel comfortable sharing their ideas.
Synonyms
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A habit of thinking badly about people quickly without trying to understand them
A habit of finding small faults in everything
A way of saying very harsh, unfair things about someone's work
Speech or writing that is sharply critical and makes people feel bad
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
censoriousness = censorious (transparent) = censor + ious + ness
This is a regular -ness nominalization of the adjective censorious, so the noun meaning is directly built from the base adjective.
Etymology
Censoriousness comes from the Latin verb censere, which means 'to judge' or 'to rate'. The same root is in censor and censure, so censoriousness means being quick to judge and find fault with others.