indoctrinability

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English

Etymology

From indoctrinable +‎ -ity.

Noun

indoctrinability (uncountable)

  1. The state of being open to indoctrination.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 61:
      Conformity, a vast abstraction of the set of relationships of a group within a society and that society's relationship to a complex environment, is here made into a discrete, physical substance, a gene, and an even more complex abstraction, indoctrinability, is said to evolve.