Sadistic vs. Masochistic

Sadisticadjective

Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.

Masochisticadjective

Deriving (especially sexual) pleasure from abuse, being punished, or dominated.

Sadisticadjective

Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.

Masochisticadjective

deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated

Sadisticadjective

(colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.

Masochisticadjective

deriving sexual gratification from one's own pain or humiliation

‘masochistic sexual fantasies’;

Sadisticadjective

deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

Masochisticadjective

(in general use) enjoying an activity that appears to be painful or tedious

‘he seems to take a masochistic delight in confronting uncomfortable truths’;