masochist

mas·och·ist

[mas-uh-kist]
noun
1.
Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
2.
a person who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or imposed by others.
3.
a person who finds pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc.

Origin:
1890–1900;masoch(ism) + -ist

mas·och·is·tic, adjective
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masochism (ˈmæsəˌkɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  psychiatry an abnormal condition in which pleasure, esp sexual pleasure, is derived from pain or from humiliation, domination, etc, by another person
2.  psychoanal the directing towards oneself of any destructive tendencies
3.  Compare sadism a tendency to take pleasure from one's own suffering
 
[C19: named after Leopold von Sacher Masoch (1836--95), Austrian novelist, who described it]
 
'masochist
 
n, —adj
 
maso'chistic
 
adj
 
maso'chistically
 
adv

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Masochist is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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masochist
1895, formed from masochism.
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