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self-stultifying en · ADJ

Etymology

From self- + stultifying.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a statement or idea) That 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.
  2. (not-comparable) Self-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:

Relateds

self-stultification

Synonyms

self-defeating