self-stultifying
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From self- + stultifying.
Adjective
[edit]self-stultifying (not comparable)
- (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.
- Self-denigrating.
- 1972, Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America[1]:
- […] 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.