The meaning of Hysteria

noun

An anxious awareness of danger.

Usage examples:

The boat tilted and the boatmen cried out in alarm

verb

Make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger.

noun

Sudden anxiety and fear, esp. that something very bad or dangerous might happen

Usage examples:

Nicholas detected a note of alarm in her voice., firefighters said the tragedy could have been avoi…

noun

An acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders.

Usage examples:

Somewhere a patient shouted in delirium

noun

A state of being unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion

Usage examples:

Fever accompanied by delirium, i've never seen such delirium at a football game before.

noun

The state of being completely unable to think clearly or behave in a controlled way, especially because of mental illness

Usage examples:

She had a history of mental derangement, he returned from the war in a state of furious derangement.

noun

A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour.

Usage examples:

Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage

noun

Excited, uncontrollable, and sometimes violent behavior or emotion

Usage examples:

[ c usually sing ] duncan’s game-winning shot sent the crowd into a frenzy., [ c usually sing ] the…

noun

A wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction.

Usage examples:

The widow had hysterics and the inquest was wrapped up quickly

adjective

Relating to or affected with hysteria.

Usage examples:

Kal's eyes widened as he came to a pause before bursting into a series of hysteric laughter.

adjective

Relating to or affected with hysteria.

Usage examples:

Kal's eyes widened as he came to a pause before bursting into a series of hysteric laughter.

noun

The quality of being illogical or unreasonable.

Usage examples:

The sheer irrationality of continuing a policy doomed to failure

noun

The fact of not using reason or clear thinking

Usage examples:

The play is a tragicomedy about the terrifying irrationality of love., the apparent irrationality o…

noun

Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

Usage examples:

Many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong

combining form

Denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.

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Kleptomania

noun

A unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

He was surprised by his wife’s sudden mania for exercise.

noun

A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.

Usage examples:

Freud's two-stage account of neurosis

noun

Sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.

Usage examples:

She hit him in panic

verb

Feel or cause to feel panic.

Usage examples:

The crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit

noun

A cereal and fodder grass of a group including millet.

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Two of the most common, but functionally indeterminate, grass grains regularly identified from amer…

noun

The character of being uncultivated, undomesticated, or inhospitable.

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The wildness and beauty of the scottish hills

noun

The quality of being uncontrolled, violent, or extreme

Usage examples:

They are no longer able to claim the wildness of youth as any excuse for their behaviour., there wa…