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Etymology

Named after the w:Marquis de Sade|Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) is forged or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographer w:Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste|Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic w:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve|Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist w:Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing|Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in w:Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality|Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitely established the word.

Noun
sadism (uncountable)

1. (mainly psychiatric) the enjoyment of inflicting pain
2. achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain on others
3. gaining sexual excitement and satisfaction by watching pain inflicted by others on their victims
4. a morbid form of enjoyment achieved by acting cruel to another, or others.
5. (In general use) deliberate cruelty either mental or physical also applicable to the cruelty inflicted upon animals whether for sexual gratification or not.

Related terms
masochism
sadist
sadistic
sadomasochism

Translations
trans-top|enjoyment of inflicting pain
Croatian: t-|hr|sadizam|m
Greek: t|el|�αδι�μ��|m|sc=Grek (sadismós)
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Hungarian: t|hu|szadizmus
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trans-top|sexual gratification
Croatian: t-|hr|sadizam|m
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Greek: t|el|�αδι�μ��|m|sc=Grek (sadismós)
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trans-top|watching pain inflicted
Croatian: t-|hr|sadizam|m
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trans-top|enjoyment by acting cruel to others
Croatian: t-|hr|sadizam|m
Greek: t|el|�αδι�μ��|m|sc=Grek (sadismós)
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Hungarian: t|hu|szadizmus
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trans-top|deliberate cruelty
Croatian: t-|hr|sadizam|m
Hungarian: t|hu|szadizmus
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ttbc|German: Sadismus m
ttbc|Danish: sadisme c
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ttbc|Dutch: sadisme m
ttbc|Danish: sadisme m
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Category:English eponyms
Category:English nouns ending in -ism

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