ALL meanings of hysteria
hys·te·ri·a
H h - noun hysteria an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc. 1
- noun hysteria Psychoanalysis. a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion. 1
- noun hysteria Psychiatry. conversion disorder. 1
- noun hysteria uncontrolled emotion 1
- noun hysteria psychiatric symptom 1
- noun hysteria Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, esp. among a group of people. 1
- noun hysteria Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic. 0
- noun hysteria (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause. 0
- uncountable noun hysteria Hysteria among a group of people is a state of uncontrolled excitement, anger, or panic. 0
- uncountable noun hysteria A person who is suffering from hysteria is in a state of violent and disturbed emotion as a result of shock. 0
- noun hysteria a mental disorder characterized by emotional outbursts, susceptibility to autosuggestion, and, often, symptoms such as paralysis that mimic the effects of physical disorders 0
- noun hysteria any frenzied emotional state, esp of laughter or crying 0
- noun hysteria a psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability, excessive anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders, such as blindness, deafness, etc. 0
- noun hysteria any outbreak of wild, uncontrolled excitement or feeling, such as fits of laughing and crying 0