value judgment

noun

: a personal opinion about how good or bad someone or something is

Full Definition of VALUE JUDGMENT

: a judgment assigning a value (as good or bad) to something

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1892

Synonyms: appraisal, appraisement, assessment, estimate, evaluation, fix, judgment (or judgement), estimation

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