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Look up stultification in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stultification (from Latin stultus stupid) refers to the state of being or a situation or an
Stultification
Count Matvey Alexandrovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (Russian: Матвей Александрович Дмитриев-Мамонов; 25 September [O.S. 14 September] 1790 in Moscow – 23 June [O
Matvey_Dmitriev-Mamonov
Katie (September 20, 2017). "Still waters aren't all that deep in the stultifying Woodshock". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on September 6
List_of_A24_films
American actress (born 1982)
Katie (September 20, 2017). "Still waters aren't all that deep in the stultifying Woodshock". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on April 27, 2020
Kirsten_Dunst
Christian denominations which emphasize ritual and form
of Reason, which marked a period of great spiritual somnolence and stultification in the Church of England. Thus, by the end of the 18th century and the
High_church
Four-part series of novels by Elena Ferrante (2011–2014)
age, as they try to create lives for themselves amidst the violent and stultifying culture of their home – a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples
Neapolitan_Novels
Indian cinematographer
Indian Express. DoP Manush Nandan's same compositions and angles have a stultifying effect "'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani' enjoys strong opening weekend
Manush_Nandan
2023 film directed by Chad Stahelski
for its brutal, sinewy agility have another thing coming: a lumbering, stultifying gargantuan of a film willing to kill everything except its darlings."
John_Wick:_Chapter_4
Creative work to evoke aesthetic response
It constantly feeds on and derives strength from the newspapers and stultifies both science and art by assiduously flattering the lowest of tastes; clarity
Art
American writer (1890–1937)
of the relationship. She attributed Lovecraft's passive nature to a stultifying upbringing by his mother. Lovecraft's weight increased to 200 lb (91 kg)
H._P._Lovecraft
1988 American drama film
of film to foreigners to smuggle to the West. Unwilling to face the stultifying police state that is replacing the Prague Spring, Tomas, Sabina, and
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being_(film)
British police procedural television serial
that "this subpar ocean drama made my heart sink", and described it as "stultifying". Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said the series was "effective" in the
Vigil_(TV_series)
1991 film
crassness is amusing, but as the plot sets in, it gradually turns into a stultifying bore." Rourke once told Alec Baldwin, "like a whore I took the $4 million
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Harley_Davidson_and_the_Marlboro_Man
Pseudonymous Italian writer
in 1944, who try to create lives for themselves within a violent and stultifying culture. The series consists of My Brilliant Friend (2011), The Story
Elena_Ferrante
1981 studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre
" Simon Tebbutt of Record Mirror described the album as "nullifying, stultifying and ultimately BORING". In an AllMusic retrospective review, writer John
Les_Chants_Magnétiques
1961 film by Michelangelo Antonioni
social atmosphere, a rarefied intellectual climate, a psychologically stultifying milieu—and his haunting evocations within them of individual symbolisms
La_Notte
Collective settlement in Israel
labor, detached from intellectual and artistic values, is boorish and stultifying. What was needed was a synthesis of the two, and thus arose the notion
Kibbutz
Principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory
religious art. Concepts of decorum, increasingly sensed as inhibitive and stultifying, were aggressively attacked and deconstructed by writers of the Modernist
Decorum
English biologist (1825–1895)
That must be part of the reason; indeed it does help to explain the stultifying nature of much school biology. But zoology as taught at all levels became
Thomas_Henry_Huxley
Scientific study of animals
considered heretical to challenge any of his views, so the study of anatomy stultified. During the post-classical era, Middle Eastern science and medicine was
Zoology
American political party
in the 1960s, but its continued uncritical support for an increasingly stultified and militaristic Soviet Union further alienated it from the rest of the
Communist_Party_USA
2020 single by Chappell Roan
"the utopic potentiality of performance" for queer people from "the stultifying and oppressive real world that awaits performers and audiences outside
Pink_Pony_Club
American writer and director (1894–1982)
Young), a member of the New England's conservative upper-middle class, is stultified by the respectable routines of life and a proper marriage to his wife
King_Vidor
2021 studio album by Architects
exercises in metal obviousness is still intact. The fact it often feels stultifying regardless proves turning climate anxiety into gratifying entertainment
For_Those_That_Wish_to_Exist
Coastal states in present-day Vietnam, c. 192–1832
deliberately altered or misinterpreted historical events in favor of the VCP's stultifying narrative, and so state historians have actively decontextualized and
Champa
Polish state from 1944 to 1989
Andrzej Munk often directed films which were a political satire aimed at stultifying the communist authorities in the most gentle manner as possible. However
Polish_People's_Republic
American suffragist (1815–1902)
necessary to overcome gender inequities. She had personal experience of the stultifying role of women as wives and housekeepers. She said, "the wearied, anxious
Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton
Transfer of the meaning of something in one language into another
by texts in the religious schools, interpreted for the most part with stultifying literalness. It had come to include virtually any intellectual production
Translation
1987 book by Jacques Rancière
student dependent on the master. Rancière also calls this "Enforced stultification" (7). The emancipatory master, on the other hand, teaches students only
The_Ignorant_Schoolmaster
French philosopher
that “there is stultification whenever one intelligence is subordinated to another ... whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies”. In 2006, it was
Jacques_Rancière
Russian poet and playwright (1717–1777)
Sumarokov, as the literary value of his plays is small. His tragedies are a stultification of the classical method; their Alexandrine couplets are exceedingly
Alexander_Sumarokov
1992 single
and a half minutes of our lives over and over again. It was incredibly stultifying." Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: "It's like it's not our song any
Creep_(Radiohead_song)
businessman, against the leveling impulses of egalitarianism and the stultifying power of monopoly. According to a 2025 Gallup poll, 37% of American voters
Conservatism in the United States
Conservatism_in_the_United_States
1997 book by Sarah Vowell
intelligence-insulting, ugly, half-assed, audio compromise lorded over by the stultifying FCC." "Nonfiction Book Review: Radio on: A Listener's Diary by Sarah
Radio_On:_A_Listener's_Diary
Philosophical and spiritual question
forms. The presence of evil in the world, as conceived by Shinto, does not stultify the divine nature by imposing on divinity responsibility for being able
Meaning_of_life
2001 video game
out-there tracks", surmising that "the course designers hadn't yet been stultified by the series' massive success to come during the DS and Wii eras". Known
Mario_Kart:_Super_Circuit
2023 film by Karim Aïnouz
Firebrand is a period piece whose revisionist aims are at odds with its stultifying approach." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film
Firebrand_(2023_film)
Systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals
upon a "machine theory" of human beings by noting that it is, "self-stultifying-i.e., if it is true, there can be no reason to believe it, since in a
Behaviorism
American writer and criminal (1871–1932)
first read You Can't Win in 1926, in an edition bound in red cardboard. Stultified and confined by middle-class St. Louis mores, I was fascinated by this
Jack_Black_(author)
2014 Indian film written and directed by Abhishek Varman
parts all right, but the family drama at the film's core has a severely stultified feel. The trouble is that the impending wedding remains impending far
2_States_(2014_film)
English singer and dancer (born 1978)
to "take a chance creatively" than release what she perceived to be stultifying records. She commented: "I knew the single 'Drummer Boy' was a risk.
Alesha_Dixon
2017 film by Michael Bay
about them, saying: "The absolute tastelessness of Bay's images, their stultifying service to platitudes and to merchandise, doesn't at all diminish their
Transformers:_The_Last_Knight
Three-volume work by Karl Marx, 1867–1894
("the totally developed individual") while simultaneously degrading and stultifying labour. In this part, Marx synthesises the discussions on absolute and
Das_Kapital
store, and recover empirical knowledge," but they were also "subject to stultifying theoretical elaboration, self-deception, and dogmatism." The doctrines
Traditional_Chinese_medicine
1860–1917 Russian movement advocating negation and liberation
attraction to the airy heights of idealism was partly a result of the stultifying political atmosphere of the autocracy, but was also an unintended consequence
Russian_nihilist_movement
1993 studio album by David Bowie
Rocket. Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker described Black Tie as a "stultifying yet annoying" record save for "Miracle Goodnight" and "I Know It's Gonna
Black_Tie_White_Noise
Japanese erotic cinema
eroductions have to do something else since they cannot show all. The stultified impulse has created some extraordinary works of art, a few films among
Pink_film
Novel by David Foster Wallace
review, calling it "an unwieldy, uneven work - by turns, hilarious and stultifying, daring and derivative". Praising the author's ambition and imagination
The_Broom_of_the_System
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet (1819–1910)
World's Own, and Hippolytus. These works all contained allusions to her stultifying marriage. Unpublished during her lifetime but certainly part of her twenty-first
Julia_Ward_Howe
American criminal
for leaving was the desire of the group to escape what they saw as the stultifying boredom of life and dispiriting poverty they were experiencing in Pikeville
Natasha_Cornett
Although Scotland lost home rule, the Union allowed it to break free of a stultifying system and opened the way for the Scottish Enlightenment as well as a
History_of_Scotland
2009 film by Jean-Marc Vallée
gave the film 3 out 5 stars wrote "It's decorative, but suffers from a stultifying lack of drama" and found similarities to the 1998 film Elizabeth. Ide
The_Young_Victoria
1979 studio album by ABBA
a pocket of air on a disco floor that would otherwise get sweaty and stultifying". Voulez-Vous topped the charts in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands
Voulez-Vous
2003 studio album by Evanescence
lack of musical adventurousness has the band mucking around either in stultifying nu-metal riffage, pretentious high school journal caterwauling, or even
Fallen_(Evanescence_album)
Croatian-born Australian soccer player
second goal in a 3-2 triumph over Kedah. However, the Ramadan celebrations stultified Ovcin as there were no games held during the period coupled with homesickness
Boris_Ovcin
1999 single by Savage Garden
expressing one's emotions and finding compassion in a confusing world that stultifies individuals with all kinds of rules. According to Darren Hayes, his longing
The_Animal_Song
Fictional character from Star Trek
yoke of ethics and practises the art and science of medicine beyond the stultifying opposition of paternalism and autonomy. A free and independent thinker
Leonard_McCoy
1965 studio album by Bob Dylan
accomplishments of Ma Rainey and Beethoven flourished, now there is stultification of patriotic martial music. For critics Mark Polizzotti and Andy Gill
Highway_61_Revisited
Quotient of two integers
2021-03-19. Coolman, Robert (2016-01-29). "How a Mathematical Superstition Stultified Algebra for Over a Thousand Years". Retrieved 2021-03-20. Kramer, Edna
Rational_number
American superhero graphic novel
that weaves itself around the destinies of but a few [of] the truly, stultifying fuck-stupid". Too cheap to be willing to pay for daycare, the Female's
The_Self-Preservation_Society
Political essay by Václav Havel
swallows up everyone within it, at the very least by rendering them silent, stultified and marked by some undesirable prejudices of the powerful… Havel uses
The_Power_of_the_Powerless
1950 film by Michael Curtiz
Unable to keep his fury pent up, and disgust at allowing himself to be stultified playing in a dance band, Rick immediately gets fired, then neglects even
Young_Man_with_a_Horn_(film)
International organization
establish the International Foundation for Science "in order to address the stultifying conditions under which younger faculty members in the universities of
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs
to rely on the privilege against self-incrimination, since that would stultify the procedures and prevent them achieving their obvious purpose." Mutatis
R (Green Environmental Industries Ltd) v Hertfordshire CC
R_(Green_Environmental_Industries_Ltd)_v_Hertfordshire_CC
Russian revolutionary and French-language author (1890–1947)
of their authoritarian practices from early on. He objected to the "stultifying structures" and the rise of bureaucracy. The suppression of the Kronstadt
Victor_Serge
1995 studio album by Enya
the album is, except for a few perky moments, wistful to the point of stultification." Nicky Ryans' production and Enya's singing was acclaimed. Howard Cohen
The_Memory_of_Trees
Fictional character from The Simpsons franchise
yoke of ethics and practises the art and science of medicine beyond the stultifying opposition of paternalism and autonomy. A free and independent thinker
Dr._Hibbert
American writer and poet
"hallowing the natural world, with farmers as poets, and criticizing a stultifying suburbia, hollow imitations of jazz, or obsessive materialism; they encompass
Julia_Fields
Form of divine energy in Hindu mysticism
. for the depth psychologies sought to liberate themselves from the stultifying limitations of Western thought to develop maps of inner experience grounded
Kundalini
Government workers that are employed rather than elected or appointed
above, 'argued that elegant writing had become an end in itself, and the stultifying effect of this on the Chinese civil service had contributed in no small
Civil_service
2011 non-fiction book by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick from his 1974 journals
Jonathan Lethem said the upcoming publications would be "absolutely stultifying, brilliant, repetitive, and contradictory. It just might contain the
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick
Topics referred to by the same term
ne ubije, to te osakati ('The thing that does not kill you, makes you stultified'), a 2004 album by Goribor What Doesn't Kill You... (Blue Cheer album)
What does not kill me makes me stronger
What_does_not_kill_me_makes_me_stronger
Systems of organizing production and distribution within capitalist societies
poorly understood reality, i.e. using analysis which due to such party stultification and shortcomings of the various parties fails to apply the full rigor
Capitalist_mode_of_production
Political situation in which everyone is subject to the law
when he stated: "under the Rule of Law the government is prevented from stultifying individual efforts by ad hoc action. Within the known rules of the game
Rule_of_law
1971 studio album by Badfinger
Badfinger seem to have already reached the Beatles' Revolver stage: a stultifying self-conscious artiness, a loss of previous essential virtues, and far
Straight_Up_(Badfinger_album)
Insatiable longing for material or immaterial gain; avarice
Avarice, in individuals and in nations, is the most obvious form of stultified moral development." Twenty years later, in the last days of 1987, Pope
Greed
1946 Gothic novel by Mervyn Peake
castle's celebration of Lord Titus' birth introduces change into the stultified Gormenghast society. Steerpike is Machiavellian in his rise, but he can
Titus_Groan
Novel by Patricia Highsmith
but Victoria Hesford explores how the setting is "an extension of the stultifying mechanisms of exchange and production that structure Frankenberg's",
The_Price_of_Salt
1975 film by Sydney Pollack
Angeles Times thought that the film "suffers from a self-consciousness so stultifying it never really comes alive, its sense of reality (or lack of it) deriving
The_Yakuza
all levels in the South African setting is both narrow and bigoted. It stultifies the black student because it dispenses with performance practices obtaining
Khabi_Vivian_Mngoma
Belarusian poet, dramatist, and cleric (1629–1680)
he learned as a youth. By adopting syllabic verse, he is said to have stultified Russian verse for over a century. His poetry is primarily panegyric and
Symeon_of_Polotsk
Feminist and antiracist art collective
types. The published story ends with the ape tamed and broken by the stultified academics. But in an earlier draft, Kafka tells a different story. The
Guerrilla_Girls
1981). "We Are All Jeffersonians, We Are All Jacksonians: or A Pox on Stultifying Periodizations". Journal of the Early Republic. 1 (1): 1–26. doi:10.2307/3122772
History of the United States (1815–1849)
History_of_the_United_States_(1815–1849)
1863 novel by Charles Kingsley
Judd points out that the city, the loud coal mining engines, and the stultifying country manor of a British landowner are all contrasted with an Edenic
The_Water-Babies
2004 novel by Hami Kunzru
one very good one, Arjun Mehta, a shy young programmer who grows up in stultifying middle-class India and dreams of emigrating to racy America. Anyone who
Transmission_(novel)
British-American anthropologist
both in dignity and in rights." The fourth statement says that racism stultifies development and threatens world peace. "The division of human species
Ashley_Montagu
1940 film by John Ford
develop a tradition, a style, which must as inevitably, in the long run, stultify and destroy itself." Martin Quigley, the editor of the Motion Picture Herald
The_Grapes_of_Wrath_(film)
2001 studio album by Chris Potter
indifferent consumers. But tributes often seem self-conscious and forced, stultifying the artist’s individual voice by imposing an artificial agenda upon it
Gratitude (Chris Potter album)
Gratitude_(Chris_Potter_album)
1986 single by a-ha
"Hunting High and Low" which he considered "a mawkish ballad with its stultifying Tony Mansfield production", added it was "unlikely to appeal to anyone
Hunting_High_and_Low_(song)
1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
life and were among the influences that kept his spirit alive in the stultifying routines of upper-crust social life in Rome. Martial professes to be
Martial
American poet (1934–1983)
because of its inherent challenge; in his own words, "the form sort of [stultifies] the whole process [of writing]." The procedure that he ultimately concocted
Ted_Berrigan
American writer, musician, and producer (1957–2021)
in black cultural criticism; in the essay, he juxtaposed the "somewhat stultified stereotype of the black intellectual as one who operates from a narrow-minded
Greg_Tate
American playwright (1928–2016)
interview, he said he left home at 18 because "[he] had to get out of that stultifying, suffocating environment." In 2008, he told interviewer Charlie Rose
Edward_Albee
Hungarian graphic artist
eliminate any facet of my work, for the very imposition of theory seems to stultify experiment.'" First he made objective cubist pictures then more abstract
László_Ney
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
Gérôme's work as a noxious blend of the trite, the exploitative and the stultifying academic. However, the latest scholarship is re-evaluating Gérôme and
Jean-Léon_Gérôme
Yemenite Jewish scholarly and belief system
that they are inconsistent.) 4. A fourth criticism is that it is a stultification of Jewish law to regard any authority, even one as eminent as Maimonides
Dor_Daim
American sociologist (1916–1962)
the middle class was becoming "politically emasculated and culturally stultified," which would allow a shift in power from the middle class to the strong
C._Wright_Mills
Australian architectural sculptor
strict template that permitted little or no deviation. Wran countered the stultifying effect and lifted the sculpture of the coats of arms to a new artistic
Thomas_Wran
1981 studio album by the Ramones
Gouldman's "intelligent, balanced production, in contrast with Phil Spector's stultifying barrier of sound on the band's last album." Track listing adapted from
Pleasant_Dreams
2005 American film
"This coming-of-age film's young, attractive cast helps to mitigate the stultifying dialogue and uninspired direction." Buchanan, Jason. "Standing Still"
Standing_Still_(film)
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Biblical
Separation, division.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Name of a prophet of almighty, A prophet title of the 11th
Girl/Female
Muslim
Cheek, Face
Girl/Female
Tamil
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil
Month in the Hindu Calendar
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Ormond, ORMONDE means "descendant of Ruadh."
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Sure
Girl/Female
Indian
Celebration
Girl/Female
Tamil
Eyes like a pigeon
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n.
The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.