victimology
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French victimologie. victim + -ology
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
victimology (countable and uncountable, plural victimologies)
- The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims.
- The attitude of seeing oneself as a victim, especially in a way that is self-absorbed or indulgent.
- 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- The whole thing has rotted into a festival of bad faith and victimology, those twin markers of the Trump-Twitter Decade: rather an irony for a show organized under the sign of friendship.
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Translations[edit]
the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims
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