Katherine Dunn

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

American Novelist

Elizabeth Berg

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.

American Author

Mira Nair

Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world.

Indian Director

M. J. Rose

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.

Edmund Phelps

I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.

American Economist

Rollo May

Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.

American Psychologist

Dawn Foster

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

British Journalist

Mary H.K. Choi

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

South Korean Author

Paul Singer

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

American Businessman

Lisa Jewell

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

British Author

Stultify can describe how someone's actions reduce the seriousness or effectiveness of something.

Undermining Effect

Often used in a negative context, implying a deterioration of quality or value.

Negative Context

May carry a connotation of ridiculing or making something appear absurd.

Hint of Ridicule

Stultify often relates to a loss of motivation or will to continue an activity.

Loss of Motivation

It may indicate a barrier that hinders creative thought or expression.

Creativity Block

Often associated with dull routine or redundancy that causes disinterest.