Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesThat is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars.
Synonyms: self-defeating
- not comparableSelf-denigrating.
[…] we have got to renounce a program that always involves humiliating self-stultifying scrambling to crawl somewhere where we are not wanted; where we crouch panting like a whipped dog.
1972, Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
Origin
Cite this entry
self-stultifying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-stultifying
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