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Definition of Sadist
1. Noun. Someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others.
Definition of Sadist
1. Noun. One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sadist
1. one marked by sadism [n -S] : SADISTIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Sadist
1. One who practices sadism. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sadist
sadguru sadgurus sadhana sadhanas sadhe sadhes sadhu sadhus sadi sadic | sadiron sadirons sadis sadisms sadist (current term) sadistic sadistically sadists saditty sadly | sadness sadnesses sado |
Literary usage of Sadist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of the Sexual Impulse: Love and Pain; the Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"The sadist often a Masochist in Disguise —The Spectacle of Pain or Struggle as
a Sexual Stimulant. IN the foregoing rapid survey of the great group of ..."
2. Analysis of the Sexual Impulse: Love and Pain; the Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"The sadist often a Masochist in Disguise —The Spectacle of Pain or Struggle as
a Sexual Stimulant. IN the foregoing rapid survey of the great group of ..."
3. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"The sadist often a Masochist in Disguise —The Spectacle of Pain or Struggle as
a Sexual Stimulant. In the foregoing rapid survey of the great group of ..."
4. The Child's Unconscious Mind: The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education by Wilfrid Lay (1919)
"There is a difference in degree, however, between the sadist sublimated slightly
to an anti-vivisectionist or to an inventor of improved methods for ..."