HYSTERIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Excessive or uncontrollable fear

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):

fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

Derivation:

hysterical (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion)

Meaning:

State of violent mental agitation

Synonyms:

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):

mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysteria"):

nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)

epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)

Derivation:

hysterical (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

hysteria; hysterical neurosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):

neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis (a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction)

Meronyms (parts of "hysteria"):

mimesis (any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysteria"):

anxiety hysteria (a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis)

hysterocatalepsy (hysteria with cataleptic symptoms)

Derivation:

hysteric; hysterical (characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria)