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A condition where the patient has neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation.
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Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
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A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
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(until early 20th century) 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 of hysteria in a Sentence
Deidre laughed, not caring about the note of hysteria in her voice.
She listened, though the edge of hysteria was in her gaze.
Hysteria gripped her, and she fought him until he slung her over his shoulder.
Her health began to break down, and it appears to be nearly certain that towards the end she suffered from hysteria of a shameful kind.
He also devoted much attention to the study of obscure morbid conditions like hysteria, especially in relation to hypnotism; indeed, it is in connexion with his investigation into the phenomena and results of the latter that his name is popularly known.
The school had an atmosphere of almost hysteria.
This smacks of hysteria - Ceres was discovered conjunct ALGOL.
Hard Candy however, has a new lens for the mass hysteria.
The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.
Persecution usually begets hysteria in its victims; and the more extravagant members of the party were far advanced on the road which leads to apocalyptic prophecy and "speaking with tongues."
Hysteria is the condition responsible for those cases which are often reported in the newspapers as 'miracle cures ' .
George Bush contemptuously dismisses calls to combat climate change as liberal hysteria and a threat to US economic growth.
A typical example of this condition of anxiety hysteria is seen in the case of a man who suffered from 'writers ' cramp ' .
The nucleus is is this risky opening gavel was sounded the edge of hysteria.
The anti-Semitic hysteria over the Iraq war certainly has taken quite a bit of heat off of certain higher-ups, hasn't it now?
The Rosicrucians managed to create a hysteria about themselves, with many people attempting to search them out to expose or join them.
They caused mild hysteria by running through the crowds at the front of the stage.
They have stood idly by whilst right wing media whip up racist hysteria against asylum seekers.
In the past few days there has been a note of near hysteria on the issue of asylum seekers.
There's nothing like religious hysteria for drumming up the ratings.
James I, who believed the witch hysteria, wrote a book called ' Demonology ' about the supposed hidden world of wicked witches.
Numbers opting for the combined jab has fallen Number 10 condemned what it called the " media hysteria " .
You've now spread unwarranted mass hysteria across the globe.
Despite the world media hysteria around him, Sharon has not done anything great or new f or that matter.
Freud's diagnosis of conversion hysteria, for example, was common at the turn of the century.
Whilst the vastly overblown media hysteria and their ignorance will always alienate football fans, Wales is Wales and that was fantastic.
Instead her now-familiar ritual of alternately preening then appearing petrified conjured up an atmosphere not of sober reflection but juvenile hysteria.
His guitar wanderings incited a degree of spiritual hysteria, especially for the musician himself.
Challenge the hysteria whipped up by the press and politicians for political gain.
James I, who believed the witch hysteria, wrote a book called ' Demonology ' about the supposed hidden world of wicked witch hysteria, wrote a book called ' Demonology ' about the supposed hidden world of wicked witches.
Occasionally there is weeping, but there is no hysteria, no yelling, and grief is muted, even private.
Thus, for example, as generations succeed one another, nervous disorders appear in various guise; epilepsy, megrim, insanity, asthma, hysteria, neurasthenia, a motley array at first sight, seemed to reveal themselves as terms of a morbid series; not only so, but certain disorders of other systems also might be members of the series, such as certain diseases of the skin, and even peculiar susceptibilities or immunities in respect of infections from without.
Kristen Stewart's career has been gathering momentum for several years, but with the success of the Twilight movie series and the fan hysteria surrounding it, it seems like her popularity is exploding.
Either magnetic magnetite or "dragon bones" is recommended for insomnia associated with hysteria or fear.
In the early twentieth century, many doctors influenced by Freud thought that tics were caused by hysteria or other emotional problems, and treated them with psychoanalysis.
Not since Jennifer Aniston rocked "The Rachel" has a hairstyle generated so much hysteria.
And the 1999 Festival will always be remembered for the hysteria surrounding The Blair Witch Project.
One police officer joined the hysteria, stripping off his uniform and running into a local bank while screaming hysterically.
While the professionals attributed the madness to a shared hysteria, the city government decided to take no risks.
The "online community" hysteria isn't quite as frenzied as it once was, and many companies discovered that if you build it, they don't automatically come.
Every ounce of willpower went into fending off hysteria.
It opened the possibility for all kinds of complaints and prosecutions by those whose judgment was affected by war hysteria.
The hysteria around sex, disease and death is so deep-rooted in our culture.
Unwelcome visits from the landlord only increase the nervous hysteria already developing in the small flat fueling dreadful consequences.
However, there was a UFO mania in California in the period, probably associated the anti-communist hysteria of the time.
The frustrating thing for Doherty's fans is that beneath all the tabloid hysteria lies a genuine talent.
The anti-tobacco zealots in the UK have been stoking up the hysteria ready for the big push on smoking in public places.
It is full of choreographed hysteria and spasmodic movement.
Eventually, however, the utter absence of any tangible proof caused the hysteria to peter out; among the grassroots at least.
The disturbances were triggered by clashes in Nottingham the previous week around which the press whipped up anti-black hysteria.