sclerotic

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Even if one doesn't think mentoring and parenting are all that valuable (or at least not valuable enough to refuse to give them up in exchange for immortality), one can imagine that a world without new blood would rapidly become intellectually and experientially sclerotic, a pale imitation of our constantly-changing world.

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  1. adjective Affected or marked by sclerosis.
  2. adjective Anatomy Of or relating to the sclera.
  3. noun See sclera.

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  • It is just to say that there are a few elements worth keeping, albeit now ensconced in a horrendously bad business model and a sclerotic organization (at GM) that cannot seem to learn rapidly. —  Latest Articles
  • 'Metalman' is the old sclerotic, regulated past falling behind in the deregulated, faster, freer, richer, better world. —  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
  • Even if the character of the new government is not yet grasped in a politically conscious manner, there is an increasing sense that "Nothing has changed": the political system-sclerotic, corrupt, held in contempt-remains impervious to the interests and needs of the population.
  • "Resistance to expanded public service programs can be expected from the ideologically sclerotic, those who occupy the negative ground between government as the problem and government as our enemy." —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • This has created a surreal environment, in which the anger and discontent of the working class is suppressed by the old, politically sclerotic organizations.
 

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  1. from New Latin *scleroticus, from sclerosis (-ot-): see sclerosis.
 

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/skləˈrɑtɪk/
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