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mass hysteria
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mass hysteria
n.
A condition in which a large group of people exhibit similar physical or emotional symptoms, such as anxiety or extreme excitement. Also called epidemic hysteria.
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Noun1.mass hysteria - a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation
delirium, frenzy, hysteria, craze, fury - state of violent mental agitation


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I fully believe our government creates these mass hysterias (BSE, bird flu, vaccines, terrorism) so that they can convince us that we need their protection; that we need to chip our animals and ourselves.
In a rare interview, Nicholson also compares the mass hysterias urrounding Aids in the 1980s ``right up there with the atomic bomb as events that impacted our culture for the worse''.
 
 
 
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