Truth is pure, but truth is painful. No sane, selfish person would ever accept things for what they are. Such is the masochism inherent in "truth".
Source: tatoeba (962050)
Masochism
Synonyms for "masochism" (37 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
Related word relations
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More general
1 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
4 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- خُضُوعِيَّة noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- مَازُوخِيَّة noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- مَازُوكِيَّة noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- مَاسُوشِيَّة noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Armenian
1 entries- մազոխիզմ noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Asturian
1 entries- masoquismu noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Belarusian
1 entries- мазахі́зм noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Catalan
1 entries- masoquisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 受虐狂 noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- 受虐癖 noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- 性受虐狂 noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Czech
1 entries- masochismus noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Danish
1 entries- masochisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Dutch
1 entries- masochisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Esperanto
1 entries- masoĥismo noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Estonian
1 entries- masohhism noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Finnish
1 entries- masokismi noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
French
1 entries- masochisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Georgian
1 entries- მაზოხიზმი noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
German
1 entries- Masochismus noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Greek
1 entries- μαζοχισμός noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Hindi
2 entries- स्वपीड़न noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- स्वपीड़न रति noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Hungarian
1 entries- mazochizmus noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Indonesian
1 entries- masokhisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Italian
1 entries- masochismo noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Japanese
1 entries- マゾヒズム noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Latvian
1 entries- mazohisms noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Malay
2 entries- kemasokisan noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- masokisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Norwegian
1 entries- masokisme noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Persian
1 entries- مازوخیسم noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Polish
1 entries- masochizm noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Portuguese
1 entries- masoquismo noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Russian
1 entries- мазохи́зм noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- mazohizam noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Spanish
1 entries- masoquismo noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Swedish
1 entries- masochism noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Tagalog
1 entries- masokismo noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Turkish
3 entries- mazoşistlik noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- mazoşizm noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
- özezerlik noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мазохі́зм noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- khổ dâm noun (the enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
BDSM stands for Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism.
Source: tatoeba (11994433)
BDSM stands for Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism.
Source: tatoeba (12717328)
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