Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.

    political indoctrination

    The regime relied on political indoctrination in schools.

    Indoktrination

    индоктрина́цияindoktrinácija, идеологи́ческая обрабо́ткаideologíčeskaja obrabótka, внуше́ние иде́йvnušénije idéj

  2. (countable, uncountable)Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.

    ideological indoctrination

    subject someone to indoctrination

More definitions
  • teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Providing lifesaving healthcare is not indoctrination.

  2. Being told you're allowed to be yourself is the opposite of indoctrination.

  3. The indoctrination runs deep.

  4. The purely autonomous robots were susceptible to an indoctrination into a robotic religion because universe is about probabilities and not absolutes.

  5. The current indoctrination in Spanish schools is unacceptable.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
act of indoctrinating:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of indoctrinating:

Origin

First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate + -ion.

First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate + -ion.

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