Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.

    Hysterie

    истери́яisteríja

    істері́яisteríja, гістері́яhisteríja

    excessive or uncontrollable fear

  2. (uncountable, usually)A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.

    neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

  3. (informal, uncountable, usually)Synonym of conversion disorder.

    истери́яisteríja

  4. (historical, obsolete, uncountable, usually)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.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. The pandemics turned into a hysteria.

    deDie Pandemie wurde zur Hysterie. — Dorlota

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  2. Tom doesn't know the difference between passion and hysteria.

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  3. Is this mass hysteria?

  4. It's mass hysteria.

    deDas ist eine Massenhysterie. — Waldelfe

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  5. Hysteria is no laughing matter.

    deHysterie ist nichts zum Lachen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

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Origin

From New Latin hysteria, a back-formation from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερι

From New Latin hysteria, a back-formation from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie.

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Forms

plural: hysterias / hysteriae
Singularhysteria

uncountable

Synonyms

7 synonyms
obsolete female disorder:uterine melancholy
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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