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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun hysteria has 3 senses

1.  hysteria(n = noun.state) craze, delirium, frenzy, fury - state of violent mental agitation;
is a kind of mania, manic disorder
has particulars: nympholepsy, epidemic hysertia, mass hysteria
Derived form adjective hysterical2

2.  hysteria(n = noun.feeling) - excessive or uncontrollable fear;
is a kind of
fear, fearfulness, fright
Derived form adjective hysterical2

3.  hysteria(n = noun.state) hysterical neurosis - neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions;
is a kind of neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis
has parts: mimesis
has particulars: anxiety hysteria, hysterocatalepsy
Derived forms adjective hysteric1, adjective hysterical1


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

hysteria, n. [NL.: cf. F. hystérie. See Hysteric.].

   A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits. [1913 Webster]
" The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone."


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

hysteria, n.
1 a wild uncontrollable emotion or excitement.
2 a functional disturbance of the nervous system, of psychoneurotic origin.

Etymology:
mod.L (as HYSTERIC)


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Insanity

N  insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.


[RELATED WORDS]

anxiety hysteria, conversion hysteria, mass hysteria