instillment

Slow steady implanting

Instillment is the act of gradually establishing an idea, feeling, or habit in someone's mind: the instillment of values in children, the slow instillment of confidence through practice.

The word emphasizes a process that happens drop by drop rather than all at once.

Also spelled instilment.

gradual

infusion

Steeping to extract essence

assimilation · osmosis · saturation · infiltration · diffusion · acculturation · seepage · penetration · impregnation · suffusion

indoctrination

brainwashing

Coercive psychological manipulation

conditioning · dogma · catechism · programming · manipulation · conformity · cultism · ideology · orthodoxy · sectarianism

teaching

instruction

Guidance for action

training · coaching · guidance · education · schooling · curriculum · discipline · drilling · conditioning · habituation

influence

persuasion

Convincing through reasoning

motivation · guidance · prompting · inducement · suggestion · impression · implanting · embedding · planting · sowing

values

morals

Principles of right conduct

beliefs · character · integrity · conscience · honor · duty · respect · discipline · habits · traditions

Opposites
gradualness of transmission

instillmentimmersion

State of being submerged

flooding · bombardment · inundation · shock treatment · force-feeding

direction of influence

instillmentextraction

Act of removing

removal · eradication · uprooting · expulsion · purging

intentionality and care

instillmentneglect

Failure to provide care

abandonment · negligence · disregard · indifference · withholding

Family

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