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Indoctrination vs Orientation - What's the difference?

indoctrination | orientation |

As nouns the difference between indoctrination and orientation

is that indoctrination is the act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated while orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

indoctrination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated
  • Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.
  • orientation

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
  • (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
  • (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
  • (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
  • (countable) The ability to orient
  • (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
  • (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
  • (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
  • (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
  • Antonyms

    * disorientation

    Derived terms

    * orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation