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Hysteria   /hɪstˈɛriə/   Listen
Hysteria

noun
1.
State of violent mental agitation.  Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury.
2.
Excessive or uncontrollable fear.
3.
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions.  Synonym: hysterical neurosis.



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"Hysteria" Quotes from Famous Books



... similarity of the symptoms of so-called possession to recognized mental and physical derangements such as insanity, epilepsy, and hysteria, suggests the conclusion that possession should be classed with other ailments due to ill adjustment of the relations of the mental and physical life. If this conclusion is valid, the idea of actual possession by evil spirits becomes only an ancient ...
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees
... from slight discomfort to the most intense uterine colic, which is experienced in the lower part of the abdomen. In severe cases the general health becomes undermined, the nervous system gives way, and hysteria and other disorders ...
— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith
... likeness to the leader whom he worshipped, upon whom he had moulded himself—for the moment it was as though Sir Mortimer Ferne had cried encouragement to their sunken hearts, was beckoning them on to ultimate victory plucked from present defeat. A cheer, wavering, broken, touched with hysteria, broke from throats that were dry with the horror of past moments. On with Henry Sedley, their leader now, they struggled, making what mad haste they ...
— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston
... "Hysteria," declared Sir Walter. "I don't blame them. It is natural. Everybody is free to go, if they desire to do so. But tell them what you have heard to-night, Masters. Tell them that no good Christian need fear ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... hysteria, and other spasmodic affections have often been mistaken for rabies, there is no doubt, and we can easily imagine the mental effect produced upon an individual of a highly nervous temperament, by ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


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