sadism

trait where a subject derives gratification from someone elses suffering
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sadism
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sadism

Summary

sadism is a personality trait[1]. sadism draws 526 Wikipedia views per month (personality_trait category, ranking #8 of 58).[2]

Key Facts

  • sadism's image is recorded as Shuster Nights of Horror-18.jpg[3].
  • sadism's instance of is recorded as personality trait[4].
  • Marquis de Sade is named after sadism[5].
  • sadism's GND ID is recorded as 4178869-2[6].
  • sadism's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85116425[7].
  • sadism's subclass of is recorded as aptitude[8].
  • sadism's said to be the same as is recorded as cruelty[9].
  • sadism's said to be the same as is recorded as schadenfreude[10].
  • sadism's opposite of is recorded as masochism[11].
  • sadism's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D012448[12].
  • sadism's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 21058[13].
  • sadism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09x8_1[14].
  • sadism's MeSH tree code is recorded as F03.657.700[15].
  • sadism's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph125401[16].
  • sadism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sadism[17].
  • sadism's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 616.85835[18].
  • sadism's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 306.775[19].
  • sadism's PSH ID is recorded as 12911[20].
  • sadism's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1083007[21].
  • sadism's Iconclass notation is recorded as 33C891[22].
  • sadism's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[23].
  • sadism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/sadism[24].
  • sadism's different from is recorded as sadistic personality disorder[25].
  • sadism's different from is recorded as sadomasochism[26].
  • sadism's different from is recorded as sexual sadism disorder[27].

Why It Matters

sadism draws 526 Wikipedia views per month (personality_trait category, ranking #8 of 58).[2] sadism has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] sadism is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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