🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

受虐狂的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shòunüèkuáng de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Masochistic/ˌmæsəˈkɪstɪk/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他这种疯狂加班的行为有点受虐狂的倾向。"

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As adjective
  1. 1

    Deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to physical or mental pain or humiliation; broadly, finding pleasure in self-inflicted suffering or hardship.

    "He has a masochistic tendency to take on too much work until he completely exhausts himself."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian author whose novels featured characters with this trait, combined with the suffix -istic.

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