Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fit of uncontrollable laughing or crying.
- noun A person suffering from hysteria. No longer in clinical use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hysteric person; one who suffers from hysteria.
- Relating to, resulting from, affected with, or subject to hysteria.
- Having the characteristics of hysteria; emotionally disordered; fitful; frantic.
- noun A fit of hysteria: commonly in the plural.
- Same as
hysteretic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to hysteria.
- adjective In a state of hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; uncontrollably emotional; convulsive, fitful.
- adjective In a state of panic or behaving in a wild irrational manner, due to fear or emotional trauma.
- adjective Resembling hysteria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
hysterical - noun A
hysterical person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person suffering from hysteria
- adjective characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ball records a curious case of what he calls hysteric aphonia.
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Ball 17.38 records a curious case of what he calls hysteric aphonia.
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An intriguing analogue to the feminist hysteric is the homosexual activist.
Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides. 2010
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An intriguing analogue to the feminist hysteric is the homosexual activist.
Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides. 2010
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The wandering phallus of the male hysteric is not pathological because it moves about.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003
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The problem with the male hysteric is that his phallus wanders from the prescribed circuits of ownership and exchange.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003
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The others seemed to be on my side; they have her characterized as a hysteric who sees ghosts.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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Like a the typical sexist writer, he invoked the word "hysteric" to describe her.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Like a the typical sexist writer, he invoked the word "hysteric" to describe her.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Or is that really any more helpful than those absurd late nineteenth-century attempts to classify Teresa of Avila as a 'hysteric'?
Notes and Links 2005
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