the act or an instance of obtaining sexual pleasure or gratification by inflicting physical pain or emotional or mental torture, esp through humiliation, on another person: compare masochism
Sadism is the necessary outcome of the belief that one sex is passive and suffers sex at the hands of another — Germaine Greer
an inclination towards sadism
delight in inflicting pain or suffering
extreme cruelty
sadist noun
sadistic /səʹdistik/ adj
sadistically /səʹdistikli/ adv
[named after the Marquis de Sade d.1814, French writer frequently imprisoned for sexual crimes and acts of wanton cruelty]