stultification
/ˌstʌltəfəˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- The act of making someone or something seem foolish, ineffective, or pointless.
- The constant repetition of boring tasks led to the stultification of the workers' creativity.
- Critics accused the new policy of causing the stultification of academic freedom.
- The stultification of debate by rigid rules frustrated everyone in the meeting.
- The state of being made to feel stupid or mentally dull.
- The stultification of long hours in front of a screen made it hard to think clearly.
- He blamed the stultification of his mind on the lack of challenging conversation.
- After hours of the same lecture, a feeling of stultification settled over the audience.