Meaning and example
teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition
The passage used "inculcation" to mean teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.163 places inculcation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 56.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 56.6%
attack as false or wrong
- Known by
- 56.4%
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- Known by
- 56.4%
walking by a person who is asleep
- Known by
- 56.2%
temporary cessation or suspension
- Known by
- 56.1%
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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