FromFrenchsadisme andGermanSadismus. Named after theMarquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) was coined or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographerBoiste'sDictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French criticSainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novelSalammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatristKrafft-Ebing inPsychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud inThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word.
sadism (countable anduncountable,pluralsadisms)
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sadism n (uncountable)
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
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| nominative-accusative | sadism | sadismul |
| genitive-dative | sadism | sadismului |
| vocative | sadismule | |
sadism c
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| singular | indefinite | sadism | sadisms |
| definite | sadismen | sadismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
