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What is the noun for victimization?

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victim
  1. Anyone who is harmed by another.
  2. (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
  3. An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.)
  4. A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
  5. An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
  6. (narratology) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “A targeted strike would ensure that the facility was incapacitated without even a single victim.”
      “She would eventually learn that she was the unwitting victim of a cruel hoax.”
      “It was unfortunate that Stuart had to be the victim of the department's incompetence.”
victimization
  1. An act that victimizes or exploits someone
  2. Adversity as a result of being a victim
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Such services enable these youth both to address the immediate consequences of their victimization and to reenter society.”
      “The entire community has to take responsibility for preventing and dealing with victimization.”
      “He reproduces that fundamental conflict between power and victimization underlying the social identity Wilde had come to inhabit.”
victimology
  1. The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims.
  2. Examples:
    1. “More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.”
      “Kudos to federal judges Pollack and Baer for not bending to the victimology and sentimentalism of the times.”
      “The author's clinical experience and studies with a concentration in victimology place her squarely on the side of these victims of aggression.”
victimisation
  1. Alternative spelling of victimization
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, such victimisation is expressly forbidden by German industrial law.”
      “The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence.”
      “She was secretly filmed by colleagues, who then sent her to Coventry during a campaign of victimisation.”
victimhood
  1. The state or perception of being a victim.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As a playwright, he ultimately refuses to endorse the language of victimhood.”
      “It seems some people repel friends by choosing to wear an air of paranoid victimhood.”
      “They are seen as people struggling to find a way to end their continual victimhood at the hands of outside powers.”
victimiser
  1. Alternative spelling of victimizer
victimlessness
  1. The property of being victimless.
victimologist
  1. One who studies victimology.
victimizer
  1. One who victimizes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is unacceptable that they should live in constant fear that their victimizer could come back.”
      “You are scum, nothing but a manipulative, worthless and conniving victimizer.”
      “Sabeel is convinced that violence is not the answer for it dehumanizes both the victim and the victimizer.”
victimship
  1. (rare) victimhood
victimisations
  1. plural of victimisation
victimizations
  1. plural of victimization
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It could help to tell us where, in real numbers, the majority of victimizations against Aboriginal peoples are taking place.”
      “Unfortunately, the authors did not provide information concerning the victims, or types of victimizations, in the sample.”
      “Aside from these factors, other characteristics such as the number of victimizations experienced will dictate the time it takes to survey.”
victimologists
  1. plural of victimologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “At the moment, victimologists, like other crisis professionals, are looking into the causes and effects of terrorist acts.”
      “In his eyes, victimologists who argue for more victims' rights contribute to a tendency within criminal law toward offender bashing.”
      “Even behavior that is self-reported as positive by the child or adolescent is defined by the victimologists as abusive.”
victimologies
  1. plural of victimology
victimhoods
  1. plural of victimhood
victimisers
  1. plural of victimiser
victimizers
  1. plural of victimizer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The frolicsome maidens of the early tapestries end as victims and victimizers on the barricades.”
      “I was referring to citizens of a militarized state, both its victims and its victimizers.”
      “So, despite its political implications, The Circle is not a work of propaganda in which shrinking victims are pitted against bold-faced victimizers.”
victims
  1. plural of victim
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The kidnappers held their victims as long as they wished and then released them when and where they pleased.”
      “Wilson plays Vann, a genteel psychopath who murders his victims with poisoned Amaretto after killing them with kindness.”
      “All victims are suffering varying degrees of burns to their skin, lungs and windpipes, caused by inhaling hot gases.”
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