indoctrination
US/ɪnˌdɑktrəˈneɪʃən/
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England/ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/
indoctrination noun: the act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.
Noun
indoctrination (countable and uncountable, plural indoctrinations)
- The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.
- political indoctrination
- The regime relied on political indoctrination in schools.
- Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.
- ideological indoctrination
- subject someone to indoctrination
indoctrination meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian
indoctrination in Tamil
- சமயம், தத்துவம், கொள்கை, உபதேசித்தல், போதித்தல்
indoctrination in Urdu
- عقیدہ بگاڑنے کا عمل
indoctrination in Bengali
- মতদীক্ষাদান, মতাদর্শগত শিক্ষা, কোনো বিজ্ঞান, ধর্ম, তথ্য প্রদান
indoctrination in Indonesian
- act of indoctrinating
- indoktrinasi
Examples of indoctrination in a sentence
- Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?
- Former detainees have described physical abuse, mistreatment and hours of indoctrination in official Communist Party ideology.
- The report identified four steps in the process of radicalization: pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination and jihadization.
Forms of indoctrination
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Origin of indoctrination
First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate + -ion.
Words formed from indoctrination
Words that rhyme with indoctrination
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about indoctrination
- What does indoctrination mean?
- Indoctrination means the act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.
- What is indoctrination in Tamil?
- Indoctrination in Tamil is சமயம், தத்துவம், கொள்கை. See Indoctrination meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is indoctrination?
- Indoctrination is a noun.
- How do you pronounce indoctrination?
- Indoctrination is pronounced /ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/ (England).
- What is the plural of indoctrination?
- The plural of indoctrination is indoctrinations.
Words near indoctrination in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: indoctrination (page history and authors); indoctrination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoctrination (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoctrination (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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