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Definition of hysteria

excessive or uncontrollable fear
state of violent mental agitation
neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

Similar Words: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysterical neurosis

Hyponyms: nympholepsy, mass hysteria, epidemic hysertia, anxiety hysteria, hysterocatalepsy

Derivational Morphology: infuriate, exasperate, incense, madden, craze

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