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stultification

American  
[stuhl-tuh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌstʌl tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the act or process of stultifying or the state of being stultified.


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Designed by Richard Lassalle, the home is a visual paean to stultification, down to the outdated beige cradle phone.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2015

That this really did take place in South Africa confirms not merely an inability to take life seriously enough, or a coarsening of the individuals' concerned sensibilities, but a deep and painful kind of stultification.

From The Guardian Sep. 24, 2010

How strange that he was once blamed for the stultification of indie music, for being boring and predictable and directly responsible for Britpop's tedious successor, Dadrock.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2010

He is accused of "incompetence, do-nothingness and reactionary stultification."

From Time Magazine Archive

They have for their support a body of fact and a record of accomplishment which cannot be put out of court without sheer intellectual stultification.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

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