{"era":"current","word":"sadistic","meaning":"deriving pleasure from cruelty","children":[{"era":"1886","word":"sadism","meaning":"pathological pleasure in cruelty; coined by Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis","children":[{"era":"late 1800s","word":"sadistic","meaning":"of or relating to sadism","children":[{"era":"1740–1814","word":"de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François","meaning":"aristocratic author whose works depicted extreme cruelty","children":[],"language":"French"}],"language":"English"}],"language":"German / French"}],"language":"Modern English"}