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hysteria
[ hi-ster-ee-uh, -steer- ]
noun
- an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
- Psychoanalysis. a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion.
- Psychiatry. conversion disorder.
hysteria
/ hɪˈstɪərɪə /
noun
- a mental disorder characterized by emotional outbursts, susceptibility to autosuggestion, and, often, symptoms such as paralysis that mimic the effects of physical disorders See also conversion disorder
- any frenzied emotional state, esp of laughter or crying
Other Words From
- subhys·teri·a noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of hysteria1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hysteria1
Example Sentences
“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.
The best way to fix the Internet would be to let the Kardashian butt hysteria die down.
Korematsu knew firsthand the dangers of war-time hysteria and pleaded that we not make that mistake again.
I might suggest a title: “Andromeda Strain 2: The Predictable Hysteria.”
At the time, before ISIS had conquered Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, the attack evoked outrage but not hysteria.
Its internal uses are in hysteria, and 136 in such conditions as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera.
The walking may simulate paralytic forms if hysteria is mixed with the neurasthenia.
There is no direct connection between hysteria and the disorders of the sexual organs.
The Tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.
There are numerous theories formulated to explain hysteria; some are ingenious, especially that of Janet, but none is convincing.
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