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indoctrination

UK/ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/US/ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,005 of 15,258leans written

Indoctrination is teaching beliefs so firmly that they are never questioned. Political indoctrination, accused of indoctrination, indoctrination of the young.

It is always the word for what somebody else does, since nobody describes their own teaching that way. The difference from education is the aim: indoctrination closes the question and education opens it.

Definitions of indoctrination

  1. 1nounindoctrinationTeaching beliefs so firmly that they are never questioned.C1

    “Former members described months of indoctrination before they were allowed to leave the camp.”

indoctrination is a teaching.

Where it comes from

From indoctrinate, from Latin doctrina, teaching, from docere, to teach.

  1. Ancient Greek

    εἶμι

  2. English

    ion

  3. English, today

    indoctrination

Built from

  • εἶμι · Ancient Greek — I go

1646; from indoctrinate + -ion. ion comes from Ancient Greek εἶμι. From the ending of anion and cation, which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἰόν (“going”), neuter present participle of εἶμι (“I go”). coined by William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

indoctrination in the wild

  • The film features the story of Hans, a boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, his indoctrination in the Hitlerjugend, and his eventual march to war.

    Education for Death

  • The precise boundary between education and indoctrination is contested.

    Indoctrination

  • Common vectors of indoctrination include the state, educational institutions, religions, the arts, culture, and the media.

    Indoctrination

  • "Re-education" as it was implemented in Vietnam was seen as both a means of revenge and as a sophisticated technique of repression and indoctrination.

    Re-education camp (Vietnam)

  • Members received a deep political indoctrination and basic military training.

    Yokusan Sonendan

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.