victimology

noun /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/

1. The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.

   countable, uncountable

2. The attitude of seeing oneself as a victim, especially in a way that is self-absorbed or indulgent.

   countable, uncountable

   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.

Where it comes from

From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry victimology (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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