self-stultifying

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ stultifying.

Adjective

self-stultifying (not comparable)

  1. (philosophy, of a statement or idea) That is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
    Synonym: self-defeating
    It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars.
  2. Self-denigrating.
    • 1972, Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America‎:
      […] 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.
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