noun [U]
1 enjoyment from watching or making sb suffer:
There's a streak of sadism in his nature.
2 a need to hurt sb in order to get sexual pleasure
compareMASOCHISM
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sadism is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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