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MASOCHISM

\mˈasəkˌɪzəm], \mˈasəkˌɪzəm], \m_ˈa_s_ə_k_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\

Definitions of MASOCHISM

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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Pleasure derived from being physically or psychologically abused, whether inflicted by oneself or by others. Masochism includes sexual masochism.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A form of sexual perversion, the subject of which receives sexual gratification from injury (especially flagellation) or the thought of injury inflicted upon himself. Hence, Masochist, one affected with m. Cf. Sadism.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

Sexual perversion with enjoyment of being cruelly treated.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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