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Sadism is the derivation of pleasure as a result of inflicting pain or watching pain inflicted on others. Aspects of it include:
- Sadomasochism
- Sadism and masochism as medical terms, sadism and masochism as paraphilia
- Sadistic personality disorder, nonsexual sadism
- See also
- Marquis de Sade, an 18th-century French writer from which the term sadism is coined
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