cris-, crit-, cri- +

The condition of a disease with no symptoms to establish the diagnosis.

1. In medicine, not marked by a crisis.
2. Not judged.

Critical of oneself or one's own work.

1. The turning point in the course of a disease, when it becomes clear whether the patient will recover or die.
2. A turning point in the course of anything; decisive or crucial time, stage, or event.
3. A time of great danger or trouble, whose outcome decides whether possible bad consequences will follow.
4. Etymology: from Greek krisis, "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen); literally, "judgment" from krinein, "to separate, to decide, to judge".

The element was transferred to the non-medical sense in about 1627.

Standards for judgment.

There is no such thing as one criteria. "These are the criteria you must follow if you want to succeed."

A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged; a measure of value.

Use and misuse: the proper use of "criterion" is singular while "criteria" is the correct plural form. Misuse is "criterions" or "criterias" for the plural or "criteria" as a singular form.

1. One who pronounces judgment on any thing or a person; especially, one who passes severe or unfavorable judgment; a censurer, fault-finder.
2. One skillful in judging the qualities and merits of literary or artistic works or one who writes upon the qualities of such works.
3. A professional reviewer of books, pictures, plays, and the like; also one skilled in textual or biblical criticism.
4. An essay in criticism of a literary work, etc.; a critical notice or review; now critique.

1. Given to judging; especially given to adverse or unfavorable criticism; fault-finding, censorious.
2. Involving or exercising careful judgement or observation; nice, exact, accurate, precise, punctual.
3. Occupied with or skillful in criticism.

1. An incompetent or inferior critic.
2. A contemptible or vicious critic.
3. A petty or inferior critic.

British spelling of criticize.

1. The action of criticizing, or passing judgment upon the qualities or merits of anything; especially, the passing of unfavorable judgment; fault-finding, censure.
2. The art of estimating the qualities and character of literary or artistic work; the function or work of a critic.
3. The act of finding fault; censuring; disapproval.

1. To analyze and judge as a critic.
2. To judge disapprovingly; find fault (with); censure.

1. A critical analysis or evaluation of a subject, situation, literary work, etc.
2. The act or art of criticizing; criticism.

It is not known why the noun, critique, was used in the first place, but the desire may have been to have a word free from the original, usually censorious sense of criticism.

The word was first spelled critic or critick and has gradually been formed on the French pattern. Critique is useful and will undoubtedly continue to be used.

The verb form of critique is considered more a revival than a continuation of usage, starting apparently in the 1950s. Critique is at the first step of a line of historical developments that began with censure, which originally meant "estimate, judge" but gradually came to be used only for fault-finding.

Criticize has followed the same path, and even though its neutral sense may still be in use, the usual negative implications that it carries for most people have probably prompted the preferable choice of critique; as in, "The teacher will critique her paper."

1. Serving to distinguish or able to distinguish; said of a mark or symbol to show pronunciation.
2. Indicating a change or modification in something; especially, in the way a printed letter is to be pronounced or stressed.
3. Capable of distinguishing, discerning, or showing a capacity for discerning.

Excessive criticism; criticism that is unduly severe or about minute (trivial) matters.