VALUE JUDGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does value judgment mean? 

• VALUE JUDGMENT (noun)
  The noun VALUE JUDGMENT has 1 sense:

1. an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed

  Familiarity information: VALUE JUDGMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALUE JUDGMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

value judgement; value judgment

Hypernyms ("value judgment" is a kind of...):

assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "value judgment"):

moralism (judgments about another person's morality)