Hysteria

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Word Usage
    "His theories took hold in American psychiatry, and the term hysteria came to mean “emotionally charged situations … symbolic of underlying conflicts.”"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fear  fearfulness  fright  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bavaria  Beria  Bulgaria  Santeria  area  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    convulsion  depression  desperation  epilepsy  exhaustion  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  abstraction  abulia  accident neurosis  alienation  
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