indoctrination

English

Etymology

First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (England) /ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/, (US) /ɪnˌdɑktrəˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

indoctrination (countable and uncountable, plural indoctrinations)

1. The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.

   political indoctrination

   The regime relied on political indoctrination in schools.

   Critics accused the organization of religious indoctrination.

2. Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.

   ideological indoctrination

   subject someone to indoctrination

Usage notes

• Since the 1920s, the term has often been used with negative connotations, suggesting instruction which a person is not supposed to question or critically examine.

Derived terms

• counterindoctrination
• deindoctrination
• indoctrinational

Translations

act of indoctrinating

• Catalan: adoctrinament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (imparting; instilling) 灌輸 / 灌输 (zh) (guànshū), (brainwashing) 洗腦 / 洗脑 (zh) (xǐnǎo)

• Czech: poučování, indoktrinace f
• Danish: indoktrinering c
• Dutch: indoctrinatie (nl) f
• Finnish: iskostus, indoktrinaatio
• French: endoctrinement (fr) m
• Galician: adoutrinamento (gl) m
• German: Indoktrination (de) f
• Greek: κατήχηση (el) f (katíchisi)
• Hungarian: indoktrináció
• Icelandic: innræting (is) f
• Indonesian: indoktrinasi (id)
• Italian: indottrinamento (it) m, addottrinamento m, addottrinatura f
• Japanese: 教化 (ja) (きょうか, kyōka)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: indoktrinacija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: indoktrinering (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: indoktrinering f

• Polish: indoktrynacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: doutrinação (pt) f, endoutrinamento m
• Romanian: îndoctrinare (ro) f
• Russian: индоктрина́ция (ru) f (indoktrinácija), идеологи́ческая обрабо́тка f (ideologíčeskaja obrabótka), внуше́ние иде́й n (vnušénije idéj)
• Spanish: adoctrinamiento (es) m
• Swedish: indoktrinering (sv) c