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Definition of Masochism

1. Noun. Sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological).

Definition of Masochism

1. Noun. the enjoyment of receiving pain ¹

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Definition of Masochism

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Masochism

1. Pleasure from one's own pain. Named after the 19th-century austrian writer leopold von sacher-masoch (masoch-ism). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Masochism

Literary usage of Masochism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"It is evidently a manifestation belonging in the province of masochism in woman. An Attempt to Explain masochism. The facts of masochism are certainly among ..."

2. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"It is evidently a manifestation belonging in the province of masochism in woman. An Attempt to Explain masochism. The facts of masochism are certainly among ..."

3. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory by Sigmund Freud (1910)
"Sadism and masochism.—The desire to cause pain to the sexual object and ... Krafft-Ebing as sadism or the active form, and masochism or the passive form. ..."

4. Lectures on Nervous and Mental Diseases by Charles Sinclaire Elliott (1897)
"masochism. masochism is so named from Sacher-Masoch, a writer whose romances ... masochism is the very opposite of sadism. Just as in sadism men excited and ..."

5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"The Definition of Sadism—De Sade—masochism to some Extent ... Real Line of Demarcation between Sadism and masochism—Algolagnia includes both Groups of ..."

6. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"Like inversion, like sadism and masochism, fetichism is born so to speak with the individual; the singular precocity of its outbreak is a clear witness to ..."

7. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"Sadism-masochism But however strongly developed, or however forcefully repressed by external influences, this trend of the natural child personality, ..."

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