/'mæsəkɪzəm; `mæsə,kɪzəm/
n [U] getting(esp sexual) pleasure from one's own pain or humiliation受虐狂; （尤指）性受虐狂. Cf 参看 sadism.

n[U]
[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Leopold von Sacher- Masoch (1836-95), Austrian writer who described such sexual behavior]
sexual behaviour in which someone gains pleasure from being hurt or punished
→sadism, sado-masochism sado-masochism
behaviour that makes it seem that someone wants to suffer or have problems
　Unconscious masochism seemed to drive her from one disaster to the next.
>masochistn[C]
>masochistic [,mæsə'kɪstɪk/