The word 'stultification' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the action or process of making someone or something appear foolish or absurd. Example: The strict rules and regulations at the company led to the stultification of creativity and innovation among its employees.
Stable government can bring stultification, and the cementing into place of powerful forces whose interests are best served by allowing change to occur slowly, if at all.
In Japan, which suffers from neither high piracy nor antiquated regulations, the cause could be corporate stultification which has seen Windows XP and IE6 remain in use as companies dithered when it came to upgrades.
Mr Berlusconi, whose People of Freedom movement now embraces the former neo-fascists, has told associates that women will have at least a quarter of the seats in his cabinet.After years of stultification, there is a new spirit of openness abroad.
Similarly, the notions of stultification and isolation from the West cannot be supported.
Most traditional scholarship has accepted the notions that (1) the Mongol invasion "destroyed" Kievan culture, (2) the Tatar period was one of "stultification" and "isolation from the West," and (3) "Russian" culture was deeply influenced by Golden Horde culture, in particular by "Oriental" conceptions of despotism.
His novels pour by in a sparkling, voracious onrush, each wave topped with foam, each paragraph luxurious and delicious, but the net effect perilously close to stultification.
You people suck.' " Muhly points out that "Mothertongue," the new recording, is much less sweet, filled with jittery, anxious repetitions and jarring chords that are intended to suggest the nauseating atmosphere of international jet lag and airport stultification, along with more mundane domestic anxieties.
This distinction is the core of Soderbergh's speech — the inhibition and stultification of the art of cinema by the movie business, and, in particular, by the studios.
For some, the experience left a small residue of disillusionment with the machinations of the grownup world — not as bad as when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, perhaps, but a palpable addition to the stultification that, come the nineteen-sixties, would generate an opposite and more than equal reaction.
The foregoing way of responding to the self-stultification argument is further explained and defended in Robinson (1982b, 2013; see also 2006a).
In supplying non-causal relations to support the claim to knowledge of experiences, this view disconnects the knowledge question from the question of how things stand causally, and thus avoids the self-stultification argument.
