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INDOCTRINATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indoctrination mean?
• INDOCTRINATION (noun)
The noun INDOCTRINATION has 1 sense:
1. teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
Familiarity information: INDOCTRINATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("indoctrination" is a kind of...):
instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indoctrination"):
brainwashing (forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs)
inculcation; ingraining; instilling (teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition)
Derivation:
indoctrinate (teach doctrines to; teach uncritically)
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