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masochism Definition


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masochism
noun
    1. psychol.
      The practice of deriving sexual pleasure from pain or humiliation inflicted by another person. Compare sadism, sado-masochism.
    2. colloq
      A tendency to take pleasure in one's own suffering.
Derivative: masochist
    Someone who derives sexual pleasure from pain or humiliation.
    colloq
    Someone who takes pleasure in their own suffering.
Derivative: masochistic
adj
    Etymology: 19c: named after Leopold von Sacher Masoch (1836‐95), the Austrian novelist who described cases of it.



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