sadism
noun
1 sadism
Sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others.
Roget 374a:
sex,
sexuality,
gender;
male,
masculinity,
maleness
etc.
373;
female,
femininity
etc.
374.
sexual intercourse,
copulation,
mating,
coitus,
sex;
lovemaking,
marital relations,
sexual union;
sleeping together,
carnal knowledge.
sex instinct,
sex drive,
libido,
lust,
concupiscence;
hots,
horns [Coll.];
arousal,
heat,
rut,
estrus,
oestrus;
tumescence;
erection,
hard-on,
boner.
masturbation,
self-gratification,
autoeroticism,
onanism,
self-abuse.
orgasm,
climax,
ejaculation.
sexiness,
attractiveness;
sensuality,
voluptuousness.
[sexual intercourse outside of marriage]
fornication,
adultery.
[person who is sexy]
sex symbol,
sex goddess;
stud,
hunk.
one-night stand.
pornography,
porn,
porno;
hardcore pornography,
softcore pornography;
pin-up,
cheesecake;
beefcake;
[magazines with sexual photos],
Playboy,
Esquire,
Hustler.
[unorthodox sexual activity]
perversion,
deviation,
sexual abnormality;
fetish,
fetishism;
homosexuality,
lesbianism,
bisexuality;
sodomy,
buggery;
pederasty;
sadism.
masochism,
sado-masochism;
incest.
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Dutch: sadisme
Polish: sadyzm
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Roget 961:
impurity;
uncleanness
etc.
(filth)
653;
immodesty;
grossness
etc.
adj.;
indelicacy,
indecency;
impudicity†;
obscenity,
ribaldry,
Fescennine,
smut,
bawdry†,
double entente,
equivoque [Fr.].
concupiscence,
lust,
carnality,
flesh,
salacity;
pruriency,
lechery,
lasciviency†,
lubricity;
Sadism,
sapphism†.
incontinence,
intrigue,
faux pas [Fr.];
amour,
amourette†;
gallantry;
debauchery,
libertinish†,
libertinage†,
fornication;
liaison;
wenching,
venery,
dissipation.
seduction;
defloration,
defilement,
abuse,
violation,
rape;
incest.
prostitution,
social evil,
harlotry,
stupration†,
whoredom,
concubinage,
cuckoldom†,
adultery,
advoutry†,
crim.
con. ;
free love.
seraglio,
harem;
brothel,
bagnio†,
stew,
bawdyhouse†,
cat house,
lupanar†,
house of ill fame,
bordel†,
bordello.
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Moby thesaurus: active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, animality, atrociousness, autoeroticism, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bisexuality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, coprophilia, cruelness, cruelty, exhibitionism, ferociousness, ferocity, fetishism, fiendishness, fierceness, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incest, incestuousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, ruthlessness, sadistic cruelty, sadomasochism, sanguineousness, sapphism, savagery, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, truculence, vandalism, viciousness, violence, voyeurism, wanton cruelty, zooerastia, zoophilia ... show more.
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