sadism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈseɪdɪzəm/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈseɪdɪzəm/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈseɪɾɪzəm]
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• Australian: /ˈsæɪdɪzəm/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈsæɪdəzəm/
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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.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: sadizëm — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Arabic: سادية — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Armenian: սադիզմ (sadizm) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Bulgarian: садизъм (sadizǎm) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Chinese Mandarin: 虐待狂 (nüèdàikuáng) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Czech: sadismus — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Danish: sadisme — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Dutch: sadisme — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Esperanto: sadismo — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Finnish: sadismi — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• French: sadisme — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Georgian: სადიზმი (sadizmi) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• German: Sadismus — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Greek: σαδισμός (sadismós) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Hindi: परपीड़न (parpīṛan) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Hungarian: szadizmus — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Indonesian: sadisme — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Italian: sadismo — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Japanese: サディズム (sadizumu) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Malay: kesadisan — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Malay: sadisme — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Persian: سادیسم (sâdism) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Persian: دگر آزاری (degar âzâri) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Polish: sadyzm — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Portuguese: sadismo — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Romanian: sadism — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Russian: сади́зм (sadízm) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Serbo-Croatian: sadizam — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Serbo-Croatian: садизам — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Spanish: sadismo — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Swedish: sadism — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Turkish: sadizm — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Turkish: sadistlik — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Turkish: elezerlik — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Ukrainian: сади́зм (sadýzm) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Vietnamese: bạo dâm — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Vietnamese: ác dâm — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Yiddish: סאַדיזם (sadizm) — psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation
• Danish: sadisme — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Dutch: sadisme — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Finnish: sadismi — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• French: sadisme — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Georgian: სადიზმი (sadizmi) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Greek: σαδισμός (sadismós) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Hindi: परपीड़न रति (parpīṛan rati) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Hindi: परपीड़न कामुकता (parpīṛan kāmuktā) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Persian: سادیسم (sâdism) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Polish: sadyzm — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Portuguese: sadismo — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Romanian: sadism — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Serbo-Croatian: sadizam — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Spanish: sadismo — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Swedish: sadism — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Ukrainian: сади́зм (sadýzm) — sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted
• Danish: sadisme — deliberate cruelty
• Dutch: sadisme — deliberate cruelty
• Finnish: sadismi — deliberate cruelty
• French: sadisme — deliberate cruelty
• Georgian: სადიზმი (sadizmi) — deliberate cruelty
• Hungarian: szadizmus — deliberate cruelty
• Serbo-Croatian: sadizam — deliberate cruelty
• Swedish: sadism — deliberate cruelty