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self-stultifying

self-stultifying adjective: that is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.

Adjective

self-stultifying (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    self-defeating
  2. 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

Synonyms of self-stultifying

Origin of self-stultifying

From self- + stultifying.

Questions about self-stultifying

What does self-stultifying mean?
Self-stultifying means that is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
What part of speech is self-stultifying?
Self-stultifying is an adjective.

Words near self-stultifying in the dictionary

  1. self-studies
  2. self-study
  3. self-studying
  4. self-stultification
  5. self-stultifications
  6. self-stultifying
  7. self-styled
  8. self-suck
  9. self-sucked
  10. self-sucker
  11. self-suckers

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