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Vinony

victimology

noun

  1. the study of victims of crime
  2. usually disparaging : the claim that the problems of a person or group are the result of that person or group having been victimized
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

noun

Etymology: From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.

  1. The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons 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.

    “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.”