noun. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.

noun. A group of psychiatric symptoms, including heightened emotionality, attention-seeking behavior, and physical symptoms in the absence of organic pathology. The symptoms of hysteria are currently attributed to any of several psychiatric conditions, including somatization disorder, multiple personality disorder, and histrionic personality disorder. The term hysteria is no longer used in clinical use.

noun. A nervous disease involving no recognizable anatomical lesion, characterized by unrestrained desire to attract. attention and sympathy, more or less coordinated convulsions, globus and clavus hystericus, anæsthesia, hyperæsthesia, motor paralysis, vasomotor derangements, etc. Women are much more frequently affected in this way than men. Also called hysterics.

noun. A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

noun. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.

noun. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.

noun. excessive or uncontrollable fear

noun. neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

noun. state of violent mental agitation

"His theories took hold in American psychiatry, and the term hysteria came to mean “emotionally charged situations … symbolic of underlying conflicts.”"