The Only Use
sadist
in
Brave New World
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- The world was full of fathers—was therefore full of misery; full of mothers—therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts—full of madness and suicide.†
p. 39.3sadism = obtaining pleasure from inflicting pain on others
Definitions:
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(1)
(sadist) someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)