Disorder and Sadism

Disorder

Disorder noun - A state in which everything is out of order.

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Sadism and disorder are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sadism" instead a noun "Disorder".

Sadism noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.

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Disorder and sadism are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Disorder" instead a noun "Sadism".

Nearby Words: sadistic, sadistically, sadist

emotional	emotional disorder	emotional sadism
physical	physical disorder	physical sadism
similar	similar disorder	similar sadism
actual	actual disorder	actual sadism
Other adjectives: extreme, sexual, mental, psychological, deadly, mysterious, psychotic.

This is in addition to his textbook sadism, egomania and antisocial personality disorder, and they all tend to make each other worse.

Source: Comic Book / Norman Osborn
Sadistic personality disorder-The Joker's favourite crimes are hurting his foes on a personal level, and much of what he does is basically artistic sadism.

Source: Analysis / Batman
Reasons and causes are various, from wanting control over another person to their own mental issues to some form of gain for them to sadism to psychopathy to a personality disorder to lacking self-control to a twisted thought pattern that only makes sense to them.

Source: Useful Notes / Abuse

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