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stultification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | constipation, deadening, impairment |
| Type of | debasement, degradation |
Examples of stultification
stultification
Or should one make as good a match as one is able at the risk of stultification?
From the guardian.co.uk
Analysis has driven out creativity and doomed organizations to boring stultification.
From the businessweek.com
Then boredom in Austria was replaced by stultification in Hot Springs.
From the time.com
After years of stultification, there is a new spirit of openness abroad.
From the economist.com
The only form of sentience allowed to them is a perpetual stultification shot through with a deep and implacable melancholy.
From the guardian.co.uk
This was also the Age of Reason, which marked a period of great spiritual somnolence and stultification in the Church of England.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It may be all but impossible for the work of young artists to escape stultification when placed within the architecture and atmosphere of the Modern.
From the nytimes.com
And yet in those early weeks after the birth, we watched it every night in drop-jawed stultification, our baby suckling away at my sore bosom.
From the npr.org
If Lilah is trying to escape the traps of the lower-middle class, Steve is trying to avoid the respectability and stultification of the upper-middle class.
From the time.com
- Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent
- The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- (stultify) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"
- (stultify) cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"
- (stultify) cripple: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
- Humiliation (also called stultification) is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. ...
- The process of making stultified
- (stultifying) Tending to stultify
- (stultify) (v) - to render useless; to make absurd
