hysteroid

[ his-tuh-roid ]

adjective

1. resembling hysteria.

hysteroid

/ ˈhɪstəˌrɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling hysteria

Word History and Origins

Origin of hysteroid¹

First recorded in 1850–55; hyster(ia) + -oid

Example Sentences

But Manhattan Psychiatrist Donald Klein diagnoses Mary's condition as a typical case of hysteroid dysphoria, a.k.a. "lovesickness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Under Sidney Lumet's flashbackward direction, the acting proves a match for Gore Vidal's hysteroid script.

From Time Magazine Archive

Examples: � The hysteroid person is a show-off as a child, a complainer as a grownup.

From Time Magazine Archive

This diffused hysteroid condition may be illustrated by the results of a psychological investigation carried on in America by Miss Gertrude Stein among the ordinary male and female students of Harvard University and Radcliffe College.

From Project Gutenberg

Even though hysteria as a disease may be described as one and indivisible, there are yet to be found, among the ordinary and fairly healthy population, vague and diffused hysteroid symptoms which are dissipated in a healthy environment, or pass nearly unnoted, only to develop in a small proportion of cases, under the influence of a more pronounced heredity, or a severe physical or psychic lesion, into that definite morbid state which is properly called hysteria.

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