Definitions for masochistic

masochistic mas·och·is·tic

Spelling: [mas-uh-kis-tik, maz‐]
IPA: /ˌmæs əˈkɪs tɪk, ˌmæz‐/

Masochistic is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 581 anagrams from letters in masochistic (acchiimosst).

Definitions for masochistic

adjective

  1. Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
  2. gratified by pain, degradation, deprivation, etc., inflicted on oneself either by one's own actions or the actions of others.
  3. tending to be self-destructive.
  4. tending to find pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, degradation, etc.

Origin of masochistic

masoch(ism) + -istic

Examples for masochistic

It also plays at times the same part as masochistic nightmares, filling as it does, the body with glycogen and a sense of power.

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).

And this masochistic sex act, delivered by none other than the princess from Enchanted, is just the tip of the … iceberg.

He talks to Caitlin Dickson about his masochistic mission, his days as a C- student and what he thinks makes a good education.

It would even appear that these people are masochistic, making themselves even more unloved by their gross gastronomical habits.

The masochistic tendency of women, or their desire for subjection to the man they love.

Flagellation, more especially in its masochistic form, is sometimes associated with true inversion.

He seemed to have reached a point at which he was actually getting a masochistic pleasure out of turning the dagger in his wounds.

Word Value for masochistic
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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