literary study vs literary criticism

literary study and literary criticism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
literary study	Yes	No	No	No
literary criticism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, literary criticism is a hyponym of literary study; that is, literary criticism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than literary study:

literary study: the humanistic study of literature
literary criticism: the informed analysis and evaluation of literature

Other hyponyms of literary study include lit, literature, comparative literature, lit crit, poetics, classics, rhetoric.

literary study (noun)	literary criticism (noun)
the humanistic study of literature	the informed analysis and evaluation of literature
	a written evaluation of a work of literature

literary study vs literary criticism

literary study and literary criticism both are nouns.

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