transcription, транскрипция: [ seɪdɪzəm ]
Sadism is a type of behaviour in which a person obtains pleasure from hurting other people and making them suffer physically or mentally.
Psychoanalysts tend to regard both sadism and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.
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• sad‧ist
(sadists)
The man was a sadist who tortured animals and people.
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