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sadism

tendency to derive pleasure, sexual or otherwise, from inflicting pain, suffering or humiliation on others
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Summary

sadism is a personality trait[1]. sadism draws 10,454 Wikipedia views per month (personality trait category, ranking #8 of 58).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Marquis de Sade[3]
  • Subclass of: aptitude[4]
  • Said to be the same as: cruelty[5], schadenfreude[6]
  • Opposite of: masochism[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sadism[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[9]
  • Different from: sadistic personality disorder[10], sadomasochism[11], sexual sadism disorder[12], coercive sexual sadism disorder[13]
  • Health specialty: psychology[14]
  • Studied by: psychology[15]
  • P14470: Concepts/Sadism[16]
  • P14541: aMnPH[17]

Why It Matters

sadism has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] sadism is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Marquis de Sade psychology Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . zgbk.com. zgbk.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12h ago · Vlsergey · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia title → —
    Sitelink count → 43
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'be_x_old', 'da', 'de', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'ht', '
    Wikidata description → tendency to derive pleasure, sexual or otherwise, from inflicting pain, sufferin
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||uk, sl, fi, tk, uz, bn, ht, ky, ps, sd, en, fa, it, es, sr, de, ru, ja, nb, be-tarask, pl, pt, nl, zh, he */ Sadism (general): labels, descriptions,"
  2. 6d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX526744
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX526744"
  3. 10d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → adb9a805-4de9-4c54-afee-31d002e43254
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'be_x_old', 'da', 'de', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'ht', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bbc things id: adb9a805-4de9-4c54-afee-31d002e43254, Adding BBC Things ID"
  4. 28d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Namuwiki id → 사디즘
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Namuwiki id: 사디즘"
  5. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → sadistic personality disorder, sadomasochism, sexual sadism disorder +1
    P14470 → Concepts/Sadism
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Sadism, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  6. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → aMnPH
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37385|batch #37385]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541)"
  7. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0203919-sadismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0203919-sadismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  8. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007551176605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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