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单词 sadism
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sadismn.

Brit. /ˈseɪdɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈseɪˌdɪzəm/, /ˈsæˌdɪzəm/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French sadisme.
Etymology: Apparently < French sadisme (although this is first attested later: 1841 or earlier, although compare quot. 1818) < the name of Count Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (usually known as the Marquis de Sade : 1740–1814), French aristocrat and writer, whose works were infamous for their depictions of sexual cruelty + French -isme -ism suffix. Compare Spanish sadismo (1886 or earlier), Italian sadismo (1868 or earlier), and also German Sadismus (1844 or earlier). Compare later sadist n. N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (sā·dizm) /ˈsɑːdɪzm/, which is also given by early 20th-cent. U.S. dictionaries. Webster (1934) gives the pronunciation the vowel of sad. D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (ed.8, 1947) also gives /æ/, with // and /ɑː/ as alternatives. The current pronunciation is given in Webster (1961) and Jones (ed. 13, 1967).
Enthusiasm for inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others; spec. a psychological disorder characterized by sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviour involving the subjection of another person to pain, humiliation, bondage, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sadism or masochism
sadism1818
masochism1892
algolagnia1893
heterosexuality1898
sadomasochism1919
S and M1965
D and S1990
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] > sadism
sadism1818
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > sadistic
sadism1818
vice anglais1942
1818 T. Moore Jrnl. 30 Nov. (1983) I. 94 There is at present a society of Debaucheries in Paris founded upon the principles contained in [de Sade's] Justine.., which they call Sadism.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/2 Sadism..is happily so strange to the majority of our people.
1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 87 There are individuals for whom,..all that is connected with death and suffering has a mysterious attraction... Still, this is not sadism, as long as no sexual element enters into consciousness.
1897 Lancet 13 Nov. 1263/2 Crimes committed by people afflicted with what is technically known as ‘sadism’.
1900 Times 15 Nov. 3/6 That had led the medical faculty to suppose that the murderer was a man of perverse instincts, and therefore, that this was a fresh instance of fetishism or sadism.
1920 G. S. Hall tr. S. Freud Gen. Introd. Psychoanal. xxi. 284 Some of the components of the sex instincts have had an object from the very beginning and hold fast to it; such are the instinct to mastery (sadism), curiosity, and the impulse to watch.
1937 H. G. Wells Brynhild vii. 116 He..with an expression of impish sadism..prodded his sceptre into young Bates.
1943 H. Read Politics of Unpolitical ii. 18 Sadism is the unconscious impulse to acquire unrestricted power over another person, and to test the fullness of this power by destroying that other person.
1945 G. Johnson in T. A. Kirby & H. B. Woolf Philologica (1949) 322 Perhaps it is sheer sadism, but this reviewer cannot help but wish that Mr. Daniels had put into his book a little more arsenic and a little less old lace.
1974 I. Bieber in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry III. xv. 318/2 In my view sadism is a maladaptive response to threat; it is a paranoid constellation in which the victim is a personified representative of a variety of irrationally perceived threats.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 96 Caning and sadism ceased; the playground bullies, deprived of adult role-models, turned civilised and considerate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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