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Meaning of victimology | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi

Definitions

  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.

Equivalents

Deutsch Viktimologie
Suomi viktimologia
Français victimologie
Polski wiktymologia
Русский виктимология

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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