Word of the Day:
victimology
What It Means
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.
Victimology in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.
Source and license
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