criterion

Definitions

1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
2. Criterion, standard.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: benchmark”

“criterion of choice, of decision, of selection”

“Knowledge has come⟳ to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience⟳ infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own⟳ freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.”

“The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order⟳ of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order⟳ as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point⟳ of view⟳, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.”

“Congratulations on managing to use⟳ the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work⟳ of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set⟳ a challenge⟳ by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?”

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