hysteric

Thân thiện

A child becomes hysteric after losing their favorite toy.

Definition

1. 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.

2. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
   • during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered- Morris Fishbein
   • hysterical amnesia

Noun

1. a person suffering from hysteria

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