victimology

From French victimologie. victim +‎ -ology

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

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victimology (countable and uncountable, plural victimologies)

1. The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims.
2. 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, →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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