sadism
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English
Etymology
From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) was coined or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographer Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪdɪzəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
sadism (countable and uncountable, plural sadisms)
- (chiefly psychiatry) The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
- Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
- (loosely) Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
Derived terms
- anal sadism
- enforcing sadism
- explosive sadism
- sadist
- sadistic
- sadomasochism
- spineless sadism
- tyrannical sadism
- zoosadism
Translations
psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
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sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
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deliberate cruelty
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See also
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
sadism n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of sadism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) sadism | sadismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) sadism | sadismului |
| vocative | sadismule | |
Swedish
Noun
sadism c
Declension
| Declension of sadism | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | sadism | sadismen | — | — |
| Genitive | sadisms | sadismens | — | — |
Related terms
See also
- masochism (“masochism”)