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indoctrinability

indoctrinability noun: the state of being open to indoctrination.

Noun

indoctrinability (uncountable)

  1. The state of being open to indoctrination.
    • Conformity, a vast abstraction of the set of relationships of a group within a society and that society's relationship to a complex environment, is here made into a discrete, physical substance, a gene, and an even more complex abstraction, indoctrinability, is said to evolve.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 61

Origin of indoctrinability

From indoctrinable + -ity.

Questions about indoctrinability

What does indoctrinability mean?
Indoctrinability means the state of being open to indoctrination.
What part of speech is indoctrinability?
Indoctrinability is a noun.

Words near indoctrinability in the dictionary

  1. indocible
  2. indocibleness
  3. indocile
  4. indocilities
  5. indocility
  6. indoctrinability
  7. indoctrinable
  8. indoctrinate
  9. indoctrinated
  10. indoctrinatee
  11. indoctrinatees

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