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Noun victimization has 2 senses

• victimization(n = noun.state) Array - adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him"
is a kind of adversity, hard knocks, hardship
Derived form verb victimize₁

• victimization(n = noun.act) exploitation, using, victimisation - an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly); "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"
is a kind of mistreatment
has particulars: blaxploitation, sexploitation, colonialism
Derived form verb victimize₃

THESAURUS

victimization

McCarthyism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, harassment, harrying, hoodwinking, hounding, illusion, kidding, mirage, oppression, outwitting, overreaching, persecution, phantasm, putting on, red-baiting, self-deception, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, tormenting, trickiness, tricking, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, witch-hunt, witch-hunting

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