Word forms: plural value judgmentsregional note: in BRIT, also use value judgement
countable noun
If you make a value judgment about something, you form an opinion about it based on your principles and beliefs and not on facts which can be checked or proved.
Social scientists have grown extremely unwilling to make value judgments about cultures. [+ about]
That isn't a value judgement, it's a fact.
value judgment in British English
noun
a subjective assessment based on one's own code of values or that of one's class
value judgment in American English
an estimate made of the worth, goodness, etc. of a person, action, event, or the like, esp. when making such judgment isnot called for or desired
Examples of 'value judgment' in a sentence
value judgment
Value judgments about standards of journalism are for others to express.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
That should stop anyone inclined to fling about ill-advised value judgments.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Politicians rarely refer to it, perhaps because it implies value judgments about how people behave.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We are not trying to make any value judgments about particular goods with these terms; they are only descriptive.
Miller, Roger LeRoy & Fishe, Raymond P. H. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995)
The public has a different set of value judgments about who are truly'the best people '.