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victimology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.

Meanings

  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. 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

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Deriveds

victimologic · victimologist · victimological

Translations (10)

fi viktimologia (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · mk жртвословие (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · tr mağdur bilimi (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · de Viktimologie (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · mk виктимологија (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · tr viktimoloji (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · cmn 受害者學 /受害者学 (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · ru виктимология (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · pl wiktymologia (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims) · fr victimologie (the study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims)