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Etymology

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anti- +‎ critic

Noun

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anticritic (plural anticritics)

  1. An opponent of critics or criticism.
    • 1965, William K. Wimsatt, Hateful Contraries, page 19:
      There is a legitimate sense in which the book represents all that the resurgent amateurs and appreciators, the professed anticritics of the 1950's were protesting against.