masochismn.

1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 89 By masochism I understand a peculiar perversion of the psychical vita sexualis, in which the individual affected, in sexual feeling and thought, is controlled by the idea of being completely and unconditionally subject to the will of a person of the opposite sex; of being treated by this person as by a master,—humiliated and abused.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 196 [Group iii] with predominant perversion of moral and sexual nature (for example, moral insanity, uranism, masochism, etc.).

1921 R. C. Benchley Of All Things xix. 181 It contains five hundred pages of mental masochism, in which the author tortures himself for not getting anywhere in his brain processes.

1930 W. R. Inge Christian Ethics iii. 109 Modern psychology has invented the word masochism for that perversion of the sex-instinct which takes the form of self-torture.

1958 Times 9 Aug. 7/7 Strange though the urgent masochism of the milk round may seem, that is how the great majority of Americans still see us.

1974 Listener 21 Nov. 679 That Johnson's masochism did not stop at fantasy seems to be indicated by..entries in Mrs Thrale's diary.

1992 Outdoor Action (BNC) July 15 There's plenty to do close at hand when the weather turns moorland expeditions into exercises in masochism.