self-stultifying
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.91 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
adj
Example Sentences
- "It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
From self- + stultifying.