sadism
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
See all 4 pronunciations Show less
Definition of sadism
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
See all 3 definitions Show less
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
- (countable, uncountable)Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
- (broadly, countable, uncountable)Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme)…
See full etymology Show less
From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis 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 lexicographer Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word.
Words you can make from sadism
53 playable · top: AMIDS (8 pts)
Best play amids 8 points5-letter words
5 words4-letter words
18 words3-letter words
19 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to sadism to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with sadism
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes sadism, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.