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hysteria
/hɪˈstɛɹiə/
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What does hysteria mean?
noun
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
- (informal) Synonym of conversion disorder.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (historical, obsolete) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex.
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IPA pronunciation
/hɪˈstɛɹiə/
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“He will break a blood-vessel in one of those fits some day. The boy is half insane with hysteria and self-indulgence.”
In fact, hysteria and neurasthenia are much more common in the races freely expressing emotion than in the stolid, repressed races.
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Before concluding the chapter on sexual conditions, we must say a word about hysteria, which so very frequently has deceived the judge.
A peculiar type of anorexia is that striking and remarkable digestive disturbance of hysteria which Sir William Gull has called anorexia nervosa.