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Indoctrination

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated

n. Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of indoctrinating, or the state of being indoctrinated; instruction in doctrines or principles.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

Word Usage

"I signed the main petition, because I really am passionately opposed to DEFINING children by the religion of their parents (while 'indoctrination' is such a loaded word, nobody could be in favour of it)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pedagogy teaching instruction

Hyponym

inculcation ingraining brainwashing instilling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

information

Rhyme

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Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

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brainwash isotropy affiliation struggle checkup