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SADISM
Definition of SADISM
noun
The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
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Where it comes from
From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) was coined or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographer Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SADISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SADISM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ADIMSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SADISM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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