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say it: SAY-di-zuhm
sadism is a noun meaning "sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others". It carries one recorded sense.
sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sadism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.