Indoctrination

/ɪnˌdɒktrɪˈneɪʃn/ noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically wordnet
  3. 3
    Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information. countable, uncountable

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absorption and regurgitationagitpropalienationbrainwashingbrainwashingcatechization

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

Etymology

First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate + -ion.

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