hysteria
Meaning of hysteria
noun
- exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement.
the anti-Semitic hysteria of the 1890s
- an old-fashioned term for a psychological disorder characterized by conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization) or a change in self-awareness (such as a fugue state or selective amnesia).
early 19th century: from Latin hystericus (see hysteric).
Information about hysteria
- It is a name.
- The plural form of hysteria is: hysterias.
- Languages in which hysteria is used:
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Hyphenation of hysteria
hys-te-ria
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- hysteria is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
hysteria synonyms
Meaning craze:
Meaning the character of being uncultivated, undomesticated, or inhospitable:
Meaning the quality of being illogical or unreasonable:
Meaning a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction:
Meaning sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour:
Meaning an anxious awareness of danger:
Meaning a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reali:
Meaning mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity:
Meaning extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
hysteria antonyms
Meaning the state or quality of being free from agitation or strong emotion:
Translation of hysteria
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