Term: sadism: sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others
Candidate hypernym: sexual pleasure: pleasure derived from sexual activities → 1
Candidate hypernym: conventionality: unoriginality as a result of being too conventional → 0
Candidate hypernym: butterfly bush: tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: measurement: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule → 0
Candidate hypernym: ply: (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood → 0
Candidate hypernym: wateriness: meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) → 0
Candidate hypernym: prostate specific antigen: a protein manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland; PSA is produced for the ejaculate where it liquifies the semen and allows sperm cells to swim freely; elevated levels of PSA in blood serum are associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer → 0
Candidate hypernym: rock rattlesnake: mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest → 0
Candidate hypernym: c major: (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats → 0
Candidate hypernym: bucephala: buffleheads and goldeneyes → 0
Candidate hypernym: elapid: any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres → 0