stultification

Other forms of stultification

plural

stultifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stultification

What does stultification mean?

stultification means "derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stultification?

stultification has 6 syllables: stul-ti-fi-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for stultification?

Close synonyms include befooling, constipation, impairment, deadening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stultification a common word?

stultification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.