hysteric
Definition
Adjective:
- Relating to or suffering from hysteria: Describes something characterized by, arising from, or affected by a state of extreme emotional excitability, often with irrational behavior or symptoms.
- Extremely emotional or frenzied: Used informally to describe a state of uncontrolled laughter, excitement, or panic.
Noun:
- A person suffering from hysteria: An individual experiencing or prone to fits of hysteria, a psychological condition historically characterized by emotional excess and physical symptoms without an organic cause.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- The patient exhibited hysteric symptoms, including paralysis and sensory disturbances.
- Her reaction was completely hysteric; she couldn't stop laughing.
Noun:
- The doctor specialized in treating hysterics in the 19th century.
- He was labeled a hysteric due to his extreme emotional outbursts.
Advanced Usage
"to become hysteric": to enter a state of hysteria.
- The crowd became hysteric when the band appeared on stage.
In a clinical/historical context: The term is often used in medical or psychological discussions about the condition historically known as hysteria.
- Freud's early work involved studying hysteric patients.
Variants and Related Words
Hysterical (adj): The more common form meaning affected by or deriving from hysteria; also used informally to mean extremely funny.
- She gave a hysterical account of the accident.
- The movie was absolutely hysterical.
Hysteria (n): The noun form denoting the state or condition itself.
- The news caused mass hysteria in the city.
Hysterically (adv): In a hysterical manner.
- She laughed hysterically.
Synonyms
- Frenzied: Wildly excited or uncontrolled.
- Overwrought: In a state of nervous excitement or anxiety.
- Delirious: In an acutely disturbed state of mind.
Antonyms
- Calm: Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions.
- Composed: Having one's feelings and expression under control.
- Rational: Based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
Related Phrases
Hysteric fit: A sudden, uncontrolled outburst of emotion or symptoms.
- She had a hysteric fit upon hearing the terrible news.
Hysteric paralysis: A functional paralysis with no apparent physical cause, historically associated with hysteria.
- The condition was diagnosed as hysteric paralysis.
Adjective
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characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
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during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered- Morris Fishbein
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hysterical amnesia
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Noun
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a person suffering from hysteria
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