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- DictionaryHys·te·ri·a/həˈsterēə/
noun
- 1. exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement: "mass hysteria erupts as the people crowd in to view the race"
- 2. an old-fashioned term for a disorder characterized by neurological symptoms often accompanied by exaggeratedly or inappropriately emotional behavior, originally attributed to disease or injury of the nervous system and later thought to be functional or psychological in origin.
Synonyms. Similar meaning. View all. frenzy. hysterics. delirium. fury. craze. panic. mania. madness. insanity. derangement. feverishness. agitation. alarm. dementia. neurosis. nervousness. turmoil. fright. psychosis. anxiety. furor. distraction. lunacy. mental distress. violence. Antonyms. Opposite meaning. View all. Related. Common usage.
noun. state of violent mental agitation. synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury. see more. noun. excessive or uncontrollable fear. see more. noun. neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions. synonyms: hysterical neurosis. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Hysteria."
Synonyms of hysteria. 1. : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral sense 4) functions. 2. : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess. political hysteria.
Synonyms for HYSTERIA: delirium, excitement, frenzy, craze, madness, agitation, feverishness, mania, rage, hysterics, insanity, hysterical neurosis; Antonyms for HYSTERIA: calm, calmness, sereneness, control, self-possession.
hysteria - WordReference.com English Thesaurus. Listen: UK:*/hɪˈstɪəriə/ /hɪˈstɛriə, -ˈstɪr-/ (hi ster′ē ə, -stēr′-) definition | Conjugator | in Spanish | in French | in context | images. hysteria. Synonyms: frenzyCollocations, hysterics, fitCollocations, crying jag. Is something important missing? Report an error or suggest an improvement.
(noun) in the sense of frenzy. Definition. any uncontrolled emotional state, such as of panic, anger, or excitement. No one could help getting carried away by the hysteria. Synonyms. frenzy. panic. madness. agitation. delirium. hysterics. unreason. See examples for synonyms. Copyright © 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
May 13, 2024 · (noun) in the sense of frenzy. Definition. any uncontrolled emotional state, such as of panic, anger, or excitement. No one could help getting carried away by the hysteria. Synonyms. frenzy. panic. madness. agitation. delirium. hysterics. unreason. See examples for synonyms. Copyright © 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
