automasochistic

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adjective

Deriving (especially sexual) pleasure from abusing or punishing oneself.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Deriving (especially sexual) pleasure from abusing or punishing oneself.

    This was first taken to be a bestial murder , but finally it was cleared up that this was an unfortunate accident during an automasochistic performance .

    1947, Acta Radiologica, volume 28, page 280
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    […] this blow is presented […] as violently automasochistic. Think of Fight Club, particularly those scenes toward its close, where Jack is caught on camera—the truth regime of video?

    2007, William P. MacNeil, Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 56

Origin

From auto- + masochistic.

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APA

automasochistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/automasochistic

MLA

“automasochistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/automasochistic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “automasochistic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/automasochistic.

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