About The Word Hysteria
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Hysteria
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What's The Definition Of Hysteria?
[n] excessive or uncontrollable fear
[n] state of violent mental agitation [n] neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions Synonyms | Synonyms for Hysteria: craze | delirium | frenzy | fury | hysterical neurosis Related Terms | Find terms related to Hysteria: abandon | abstraction | abulia | accident neurosis | alienation | anxiety | anxiety equivalent | anxiety hysteria | anxiety neurosis | anxiety state | apathy | association neurosis | battle fatigue | blast neurosis | catatonic stupor | combat fatigue | compensation neurosis | compulsion | compulsion neurosis | conversion hysteria | conversion neurosis | craze | dejection | delirium | depression | detachment | ecstasy | elation | emotionalism | euphoria | expectation neurosis | fire and fury | fixation neurosis | folie du doute | frenzy | fright neurosis | furor | furore | fury | homosexual neurosis | hypochondria | hypochondriasis | hysterics | indifference | insensibility | intoxication | lethargy | madness | mania | melancholia | mental distress | neurosis | neuroticism | obsession | obsessional neurosis | occupational neurosis | orgasm | orgy | passion | pathological indecisiveness | pathoneurosis | phobia | preoccupation | psychalgia | psychasthenia | psychomotor disturbance | psychoneurosis | psychoneurotic disorder | psychopathia martialis | rage | rapture | ravishment | regression neurosis | shell shock | situational neurosis | stupor | tearing passion | tic | towering rage | transport | twitching | unresponsiveness | war neurosis | withdrawal See Also | anxiety hysteria | fear | fearfulness | fright | hysterocatalepsy | mania | manic disorder | mimesis | neurosis | neuroticism | nympholepsy | psychoneurosis Hysteria In Webster's Dictionary \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
{Hysteric}.] (Med.)
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.
Note: 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.
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