Home › Words › V › victimagevictimagevictimage means the state of being a victim.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, victimage ranks #16,765 of 42,785 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom victim + -age.nounThe state of being a victim.The act of scapegoating a person or group in order to avoid societal guilt.e.g.“What is so terrible about victimage is that, invariably, one man's guilt, or a group's guilt, results in some other person's or persons' injury or death.” — 1983, William H. Rueckert, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, page 151:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).