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victimologies

victimologies is the plural of victimology.

Meaning of victimology

Noun

victimology (countable and uncountable, plural victimologies)

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

Questions about victimologies

What is victimologies the plural of?
Victimologies is the plural of victimology.

Words near victimologies in the dictionary

  1. victimlike
  2. victimness
  3. victimologic
  4. victimological
  5. victimologically
  6. victimologies
  7. victimologist
  8. victimologists
  9. victimology
  10. victimry
  11. victims

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