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masochistic
[ mas-uh-kis-tik, maz‑ ]
adjective
- Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- gratified by pain, degradation, deprivation, etc., inflicted on oneself either by one's own actions or the actions of others.
- tending to be self-destructive.
- tending to find pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, degradation, etc.
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Other Words From
- masoch·isti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of masochistic1
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Example Sentences
This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.
But there was a lot more to Turner than a masochistic mission to understand the elements.
Total isolation, it seems, is the masochistic goal from the start.
“Everything that is masochistic in the film is me,” said von Trier (via Skarsgard).
He talks to Caitlin Dickson about his masochistic mission, his days as a C- student and what he thinks makes a good education.
In classic times various masochistic phenomena are noted with approval by Ovid.
Flagellation, more especially in its masochistic form, is sometimes associated with true inversion.
The masochistic tendency of women, or their desire for subjection to the man they love.
It would even appear that these people are masochistic, making themselves even more unloved by their gross gastronomical habits.
Organized monachism furnished a more convenient outlet for the stronger masochistic impulses than Chiliasm and so superseded it.
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