instilling
- noun
- /ɪnˈstɪlɪŋ/
- US
:
inculcación
- Parents play a crucial role in instilling values such as honesty and kindness in their children.
It's decades of instilling this, this obedience.
- It's decades of instilling this, this obedience.
- How do you think about instilling in machine learning something that's aligned with human values in terms of bias?
- Our ideals and our values can be learned, but instilling them into our character that's earned their practice.
Examples
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I mean, school is always about instilling the agreed upon values of the community.
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But yes, we need to be instilling values that lead to self discovery and self improvement.
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This is your last shot to start instilling some respect and some discipline in them.
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It's decades of instilling this, this obedience.
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What I have learnt is the importance of cultural values instilling in them when they're very young.
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Our ideals and our values can be learned, but instilling them into our character that's earned their practice.
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The teacher focused on instilling a love for reading in her students through daily book sessions.
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Community programs aim at instilling civic responsibility among young people through volunteer work.
Synonyms
1
8.7
Teaching something again and again so people learn it
Teaching something again and again so it becomes part of the mind
How Strong
30
8.3
- Formal
1
8.7
- US
572
1.0
759
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Instilling comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and stillare 'to drip'. Think of putting an idea into someone drop by drop, like the same root in distill, so to instill means to teach or build a habit slowly and steadily.