Explore Masochism through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Masochism in a sentence
Masochism meaning
The (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation.
Synonyms of Masochism
Using Masochism
- The main meaning on this page is: The (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation.
- Useful related words include: sexual pleasure.
- In the example corpus, masochism often appears in combinations such as: and masochism, masochism in, that masochism.
Context around Masochism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Masochism
- In this selection, "masochism" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sexual, believe, flagellation, belongs, transvestism and tango stand out and add context to how "masochism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include argued that masochism is an and assumed that masochism was so. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "masochism" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with masochism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The term sadomasochism is derived from the words sadism and masochism. (11 words)
I have a feeling we're doing a form of The Masochism Tango now. (14 words)
I’m not opposed to masochism, but who are these heathens who believe masochism belongs outside the bedroom? (18 words)
We can off often detect emotional masochism when people giggle in the midst of their suffering Others May smirk a little bit when they’re telling you about failure the hidden pleasure behind the self-sabotage often comes out and is rarely challenged. (43 words)
The German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft Ebing introduced the terms "sadism" and "masochism" to the medical community in his work Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis ("New research in the area of Psychopathy of Sex") in 1890. (39 words)
I feel justified in calling this sexual anomaly "Masochism", because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writings. (37 words)
I’m not opposed to masochism, but who are these heathens who believe masochism belongs outside the bedroom? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
I’m not opposed to masochism, but who are these heathens who believe masochism belongs outside the bedroom?
Flagellation, masochism, transvestism, and the wide variety of fetishes appear to be products of conditioning, fortified sometimes by some other aspect of an individual’s personality and by inherent or acquired anatomic and physiologic capacities.
I have a feeling we're doing a form of The Masochism Tango now.
We can off often detect emotional masochism when people giggle in the midst of their suffering Others May smirk a little bit when they’re telling you about failure the hidden pleasure behind the self-sabotage often comes out and is rarely challenged.
Although the primary focus is on sexual behavior in men, there are sections on Sadism in Woman, Masochism in Woman, and Lesbian Love.
Because the pleasure or power in looking at the victim figures prominently in sadism and masochism, Sartre was able to link these phenomena to his famous philosophy of the "Look of the Other".
Before Deleuze, however, Sartre had presented his own theory of sadism and masochism, at which Deleuze's deconstructive argument, which took away the symmetry of the two roles, was probably directed.
Both also assumed that masochism was so inherent to female sexuality that it would be difficult to distinguish as a separate inclination.
Finally, Baumeister (2010) observes a contrast between the 'intense sensation' focus of male masochism to a more 'meaning and emotion' centred female masochistic script.
Freud doubted that masochism in men was ever a primary tendency, and speculated that it may exist only as a transformation of sadism.
However it has also been argued (Deleuze, Coldness and Cruelty) that the concurrence of sadism and masochism in Freud's model should not be taken for granted.
I feel justified in calling this sexual anomaly "Masochism", because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writings.
Masochism in men, however, was seen as a more significant aberration, contrary to the nature of male sexuality.
Sartre argued that masochism is an attempt by the "For-itself" (consciousness) to reduce itself to nothing, becoming an object that is drowned out by the "abyss of the Other's subjectivity".
Secondary masochism, in other words, is the relatively casual version, more akin to a charade, and most commentators are quick to point out its contrivedness.
Sexual Masochism was described as an addiction-like tendency, with several features resembling that of drug addiction: craving, intoxication, tolerance and withdrawal.
S/M (sadism and masochism) means an individual who takes pleasure in the humiliation or pain of others.
The German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft Ebing introduced the terms "sadism" and "masochism" to the medical community in his work Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis ("New research in the area of Psychopathy of Sex") in 1890.
These are voyeuristic disorder, exhibitionistic disorder, frotteuristic disorder, sexual masochism disorder, sexual sadism disorder, pedophilic disorder, fetishistic disorder, and transvestic disorder.
The term sadomasochism is derived from the words sadism and masochism.
Common combinations with masochism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and masochism 8×
- masochism in 6×
- that masochism 4×
- masochism to 3×
- sadism masochism 2×
- masochism was 2×
- sexual masochism 2×
- masochism and 2×