sadomasochist
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- noun
- /ˌseɪdəˈmɑːsəˌkɪst/
- NSFW
- During the workshop, the sadomasochist shared their experiences of exploring pleasure through pain.
Examples
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The sadomasochist enjoyed both giving and receiving pain in consensual scenarios.
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"Instead of one gay identity, or two, with parallel gay and lesbian identities, there are now potentially hundreds: a black lesbian sadomasochist one, a disabled white gay male one, and so forth.
Academic text (1995) -
Because this one here was a sadomasochist.
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Dancing around in the background like a camp sadomasochist.
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At the end, she actually reveals that it was really an S&M sadomasochist, a little mutual game sexual game that they were playing.
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Are you a sadomasochist?
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Larry Thompson just came out as a kinky sadomasochist of the sickest kind.
Blog text (2) -
However, this is not the same thing as consensual sadomasochist or bondage and domination/discipline acts, and must not be confused with them.
Academic text (2005) -
Communists are sadomasochists.
Blog text (29) -
Foremost on the agendas of the anti-comics crusade were concerns that gender roles were bent in the stories, allowing characters like Wonder Woman to act out lesbian and sadomasochist fantasies.
Academic text (2012)
Surface Forms
Morphology
sadomasochist = sadomasochism (semi-transparent) = sado + masoch + ist
Formed by the combining forms sado- + masoch- with the agentive suffix -ist; the meaning is derivable if the learner knows the technical terms 'sadism' and 'masochism', but these are specialized eponymous terms and the combining forms are not standalone words.
Etymology
Sadomasochist comes from combining sadism (from the name of the French writer Marquis de Sade) and masochism (from the name of the Austrian writer Sacher-Masoch), where sadism means 'enjoying giving pain' and masochism means 'enjoying receiving pain'. So, a sadomasochist is someone who gets pleasure from both giving and receiving pain.