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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who takes a morbid pleasure in the contemplation of mental or physical pain in others or in himself.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.

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