Criterion

Quick meaning: Criterion is a noun meaning A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: benchmark

criterion of choice, of decision, of selection

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?

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.

Word Forms

• criteria
• criterions
• criterium

Synonyms for criterion

Depending on context, synonyms include benchmark, standard, measure, touchstone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include standard, measure, touchstone, benchmark, method, reckoning.

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