Someone who gets pleasure from hurting or humiliating others is a sadist. Sadists feel other people's pain more than is normal. And they enjoy it. At least, they do until it is over, when they may feel bad.
Masochism refers to the enjoyment of experiencing pain while sadism refers to the enjoyment of inflicting pain on someone else. Interestingly, both masochism and sadism are eponymous words.
Schadenfreude is pleasure or amusement in response to the misfortunes, pain, humiliation, or mistakes of other people.
mas·och·ist ˈma-sə-kist. ˈma-zə-, also ˈmā- plural masochists. : a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism.
sadist pervert deviate deviant degenerate flagellant masochist.
Types of Masochism
Sexual masochism: Freud referred to this type of masochism as erotic masochism. It involves finding sexual pleasure in experiencing pain. Psychological masochism: This is a non-sexual type of masochism that involves deriving enjoyment from experiencing psychological pain.
Back in the '80s, Masochistic Personality Disorder, also known as Self-Defeating Personality Disorder, was considered for inclusion in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) — and some argue that it should still be added — but being an emotional masochist is not a clinical diagnosis.
THE MASOCHISM HYPOTHESIS, ACCORDING TO WHICH SUFFERING, FOR WOMEN, IS INHERENTLY BOUND UP WITH EROTIC PLEASURE AND IS DESIRED FOR THAT REASON, IS A PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY WHICH DEVELOPED OUT OF ROMANTICISM.
The general understanding of masochism is that it is a psychological dynamic that involves a person taking satisfaction, fulfillment, or pleasure from pain. In other words, masochism consists of actively seeking pain in the way that many people pursue pleasure.
Sexual masochism involves acts in which a person experiences sexual excitement from being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise abused. Sexual masochism disorder is sexual masochism that causes significant distress or substantially interferes with daily functioning.
Lifelong struggles with trauma or other negative experiences may fuel an unconscious desire to continually return to the status quo of unhappiness. Some people who seem comfortable in their misery actually may be suffering from an underlying mental health disorder.
Information & Source: Lypophrenia is a modern term and refers to a feeling of sadness seemingly without any causes. Frequently, it is said to most associate when you miss someone but that might not always be the case.
Lypophrenia (n,) A vague feeling of sadness seemingly without any cause.
EPICARICACY, noun:
(HT Illustration: Sudhir Shetty) Deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others. USAGE: When the boastful braggart was defenestrated by his club, my epicaricacy knew no bounds.
ˌsa-, -ˈma-zə- : the derivation of sexual gratification from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation either on another person or on oneself compare masochism, sadism.
The results confirmed that childhood abuse, especially sexual, increases sadomasochistic tendencies. These increases varied by gender such that abused males exhibited more sadistic preferences and females more masochistic. Levels of sadism and masochism varied with history of abuse and gender.
In a recent study, the most frequent reason for engaging in masochism and sadism was to give or exchange power with another person. Others responded that the practice allowed them to enter into an alternative state of consciousness, one that could lead to a somewhat meditative and relaxed state.
Someone into masochism gets sexual pleasure from being hurt: they are turned on by pain. When you see the word masochism, think "pleasure from pain." Masochism is the opposite of sadism, which involves getting turned on by hurting people.
People who are dealing with emotional masochism will act in ways that are self-destructive. They endure emotional pain, which they find to be pleasurable, and they may even want more. They may engage in risky behaviors like substance abuse or promiscuity.
Masochists additionally engage areas involved in memory and cognitive reevaluation in a masochistic context. This dissociation between the sensory and affective aspects of pain can be linked to altered contextual and multisensory integrative processes in the operculum.
On Christmas Eve 1874, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whom history would remember as the most famous masochist, left his home in Bruck an der Mur in Austria for the unknown.
A sadist is the opposite of a masochist, who enjoys being in pain. A sadist is all about hurting others, usually to get off sexually. However, this word is about more than sex. Anyone who is mean and enjoys it — like a bully — could be considered a sadist.
Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits. Being melancholy means that you're overcome in sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. The word started off as a noun for deep sadness, from a rather disgusting source.