victimology

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Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

Definition of victimology

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The attitude of seeing oneself as a victim, especially in a way that is self-absorbed or indulgent.
    “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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Etymology

From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.

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