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| mas·och·ism [ mássə kìzzəm ] |
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1. sexual pleasure through humiliation: sexual gratification achieved through humiliation and physical and verbal abuse
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2. psychological disorder: the psychological disorder in which somebody needs to be emotionally or physically abused in order to be sexually satisfied
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3. search for abusive sexual partners: the active seeking out of sexual partners who will dominate, humiliate, and physically and verbally abuse
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4. enjoyment of hardship: the tendency to invite and enjoy misery of any kind, especially in order to be pitied by others or admired for forbearance
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| [Late 19th century. After Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian novelist] |
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  mas·o·chist noun |
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