Sadism

//ˈseɪdɪzəm//

Synonyms for "sadism" (68 found)

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Related words (34)

Noun(1 words)
sadisticness

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Antonyms

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coordinate

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related to

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Translations

62 translations across 32 languages.

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Albanian

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  • sadizëm noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Arabic

1 entries
  • سادية noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Armenian

1 entries
  • սադիզմ noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • садизъм noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 虐待狂 noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Czech

1 entries
  • sadismus noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Danish

3 entries
  • sadisme noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadisme noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadisme noun (deliberate cruelty)

Dutch

3 entries
  • sadisme noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadisme noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadisme noun (deliberate cruelty)

Esperanto

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  • sadismo noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Finnish

3 entries
  • sadismi noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadismi noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadismi noun (deliberate cruelty)

French

3 entries
  • sadisme noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadisme noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadisme noun (deliberate cruelty)

Georgian

3 entries
  • სადიზმი noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • სადიზმი noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • სადიზმი noun (deliberate cruelty)

German

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  • Sadismus noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Greek

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  • σαδισμός noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • σαδισμός noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Hindi

3 entries
  • परपीड़न noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • परपीड़न कामुकता noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • परपीड़न रति noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • szadizmus noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • szadizmus noun (deliberate cruelty)

Indonesian

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  • sadisme noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Italian

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  • sadismo noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Japanese

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  • サディズム noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Malay

2 entries
  • kesadisan noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadisme noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Persian

3 entries
  • دگر آزاری noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • سادیسم noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • سادیسم noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Polish

2 entries
  • sadyzm noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadyzm noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • sadismo noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadismo noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Romanian

2 entries
  • sadism noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadism noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Russian

1 entries
  • сади́зм noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • sadizam noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadizam noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadizam noun (deliberate cruelty)
  • садизам noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Spanish

2 entries
  • sadismo noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadismo noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Swedish

3 entries
  • sadism noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadism noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)
  • sadism noun (deliberate cruelty)

Turkish

3 entries
  • elezerlik noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadistlik noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • sadizm noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • сади́зм noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • сади́зм noun (sexual gratification from inflicting pain or humiliation, or watching it inflicted)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • bạo dâm noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)
  • ác dâm noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • סאַדיזם noun (psychology: the enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

Source: tatoeba (413866)

Ziri has personality traits associated with sadism.

Source: tatoeba (10603427)

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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