sadism | Definition of sadism

Synonyms and Antonyms of sadism

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others

a troubled youth with a streak of sadism in him

Synonyms of sadism

atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness

Words Related to sadism

hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness

fellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness

bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity

cattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness

hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness

Near Antonyms of sadism

tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth

charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity

Antonyms of sadism

benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness