the practice of getting sexual pleasure from being hurt or controlled by somebody else 性受虐狂 Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of masochism- act
- a form of masochism
- a kind of masochism
- (informal)
pleasure in something that most people would find unpleasant or painful 受虐狂 Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of masochism- act
- a form of masochism
- a kind of masochism
Word Originlate 19th cent.: named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1835–95), the Austrian novelist who described it + -ism.