Brainwashing
noun
The act of making someone believe in something by repeatedly telling them it's true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
He was accused of brainwashing his followers to obey his orders.
Often appears as...
- cult brainwashing
- political brainwashing
verb
To make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it's true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
The prisoners were brainwashed to become loyal to the enemy.
Often appears as...
- brainwashing into believing
- brainwashing into obedience
noun
The act of making someone believe in something by repeatedly telling them it's true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
He was accused of brainwashing his followers to obey his orders.
Often appears as...
- cult brainwashing
- political brainwashing
verb
To make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them it's true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
The prisoners were brainwashed to become loyal to the enemy.
Often appears as...
- brainwashing into believing
- brainwashing into obedience
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brainwashing is often viewed negatively because it involves forced belief.
The regime's brainwashing of youth alarmed the international community.
Pro Tip 2/3Total Control
Brainwashing suggests total control over someone’s thoughts or beliefs.
Cult leaders are notorious for brainwashing their followers.
Pro Tip 3/3Repeated Exposure
Brainwashing involves constant repetition of the same message.
He claimed the media was brainwashing us with consumerist ideals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brainwashing is often viewed negatively because it involves forced belief.
The regime's brainwashing of youth alarmed the international community.
Pro Tip 2/3Total Control
Brainwashing suggests total control over someone’s thoughts or beliefs.
Cult leaders are notorious for brainwashing their followers.
Pro Tip 3/3Repeated Exposure
Brainwashing involves constant repetition of the same message.
He claimed the media was brainwashing us with consumerist ideals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brainwashing is often viewed negatively because it involves forced belief.
The regime's brainwashing of youth alarmed the international community.
Pro Tip 2/3Total Control
Brainwashing suggests total control over someone’s thoughts or beliefs.
Cult leaders are notorious for brainwashing their followers.
Pro Tip 3/3Repeated Exposure
Brainwashing involves constant repetition of the same message.
He claimed the media was brainwashing us with consumerist ideals.
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Video examples
David Perry: Will...
completely vulnerable to re-programming. But maybe brainwashing isn't always bad. Imagine a game that teaches us to respect each other, or helps us to understand the problems we're all facing in the real world. There is a potential to do good as well.
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Why do people join...
This progressive religious movement rose in popularity and gained support from some of San Francisco's most prominent politicians. But in 1977, amidst revelations of brainwashing and abuse, Jones moved with several hundred followers
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experiments designed to help win the cold war developing techniques for mind control to create a so-called manchurian candidate what is the extent of these brainwashing experiments how did the cia become involved in such
Video examples
David Perry: Will...
completely vulnerable to re-programming. But maybe brainwashing isn't always bad. Imagine a game that teaches us to respect each other, or helps us to understand the problems we're all facing in the real world. There is a potential to do good as well.
Video examples
Why do people join...
This progressive religious movement rose in popularity and gained support from some of San Francisco's most prominent politicians. But in 1977, amidst revelations of brainwashing and abuse, Jones moved with several hundred followers
Video examples
CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
experiments designed to help win the cold war developing techniques for mind control to create a so-called manchurian candidate what is the extent of these brainwashing experiments how did the cia become involved in such
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Quote examples
Tara Westover
American Historian
I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog's bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked, the very next thing I do is write. It's mechanical. It's programming, very nearly brainwashing.
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Jamie Hewlett
English Artist
I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.
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Andrew Garfield
American Actor
I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
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Courtney Act
Australian Entertainer
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.
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Antony Beevor
British Historian
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
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Tatyana Ali
American Actress
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Tricky
English Musician
School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.
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Madlib
American Musician
My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.
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Jedediah Bila
American Entertainer
Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.
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Sean Durkin
American Director
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
Quote examples
Tara Westover
American Historian
I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog's bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked, the very next thing I do is write. It's mechanical. It's programming, very nearly brainwashing.
Quote examples
Jamie Hewlett
English Artist
I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.
Quote examples
Andrew Garfield
American Actor
I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
Quote examples
Courtney Act
Australian Entertainer
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.
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Antony Beevor
British Historian
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
Quote examples
Tatyana Ali
American Actress
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Tricky
English Musician
School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.
Quote examples
Madlib
American Musician
My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.
Quote examples
Jedediah Bila
American Entertainer
Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.
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Sean Durkin
American Director
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
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