victimology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French victimologie. victim + -ology.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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victimology (countable and uncountable, plural victimologies)
- The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons 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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[edit]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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