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• n  derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent
• n  the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)

• He urged businessmen to sponsor TV programs that contribute to the edification rather than the "stultification of the minds of our people.
• If Lilah is trying to escape the traps of the lower-middle class, Steve is trying to avoid the respectability and stultification of the upper-middle class.
• China's own communist movement was born in its misery-laden lanes; much of its recent history has been stultification under Maoism.

• befooling
• constipation
• impairment
• deadening