English
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 independantly) 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
sadist (sadists)
#One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.
Derived terms
sadistic
Related terms
sadism
sadomasochist
Translations
French: sadique
German: Sadist m, Sadistin f
Danish: sadist
See also
masochist
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