hysteria

hys·ter·i·a  (h-str-, -stîr-)

n.

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

2. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.

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[New Latin : hyster(ic) + -ia¹.]

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hysteria

Noun

1. a mental disorder marked by emotional outbursts and, often, symptoms such as paralysis

2. any uncontrolled emotional state, such as of panic, anger, or excitement [Greek hustera womb, from the belief that hysteria in women originated in disorders of the womb]

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hysteria

a condition of extreme excitement characterized by emotional disturbance, sensory and motor derangement and sometimes the simulation of organic disorders. — hysterie, n. — hysteric, hysterical, adj.

See also: Psychology

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hysteria - state of violent mental agitation delirium, frenzy, fury, craze nympholepsy - a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable manic disorder, mania - a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently epidemic hysertia, mass hysteria - a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation
	2.	hysteria - excessive or uncontrollable fear fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
	3.	hysteria - neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions hysterical neurosis mimesis - any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis - a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction anxiety hysteria - a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis hysterocatalepsy - hysteria with cataleptic symptoms

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hysteria

noun frenzy, panic, madness, agitation, delirium, hysterics, unreason

Translations

hysteria [hɪˈstɪərɪə] n → histeria

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hysteria [hɪˈstɪərɪə] n → hystérie f

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hysteria [hɪˈstɪərɪə] n → Hysterie f

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hysteria [hɪˈstɪərɪə] n → isteria