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English noun: hysteria

1. hysteria (state) state of violent mental agitation


Synonymscraze, delirium, frenzy, fury


Broader (hypernym)mania, manic disorder


Narrower (hyponym)epidemic hysertia, mass hysteria, nympholepsy

2. hysteria (feeling) excessive or uncontrollable fear


Broader (hypernym)fear, fearfulness, fright

3. hysteria (state) neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions


Synonymshysterical neurosis


Broader (hypernym)neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis


Narrower (hyponym)anxiety hysteria, hysterocatalepsy


Part holonymmimesis









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