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Definition of: masochism
(mas′ə·kiz′əm) noun Psychiatry
A condition in which sexual gratification depends on being dominated, cruelly treated, beaten, etc. [after Leopold von Sacher–Masoch, 1835–95, Austrian novelist, who described this condition]
—mas′o·chist noun
—mas′o·chis′tic adjective
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