say it: vik-tuh-muh-ZAY-shuhn
victimization is a noun meaning "adversity resulting from being made a victim". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for victimization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.