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Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan

Meaning of "hysteria" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYSTERIA

From New Latin, from Latin hystericushysteric.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HYSTERIA

hysteria  [hɪˈstɪərɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYSTERIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hysteria is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYSTERIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hysteria

Hysteria

Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. The fear can be centered on a body part, or most commonly, on an imagined problem with that body part. Disease is a common complaint; see also body dysmorphic disorder and hypochondriasis. Generally, modern medical professionals have given up the use of "hysteria" as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories such as somatization disorder. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association officially changed the diagnosis of "hysterical neurosis, conversion type" to "conversion disorder".

Definition of hysteria in the English dictionary

The definition of hysteria in the dictionary is any frenzied emotional state, esp of laughter or crying.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYSTERIA


anterior
ænˈtɪərɪə
archaebacteria
ˌɑːkɪbækˈtɪərɪə
asteria
æsˈtɪərɪə
bacteria
bækˈtɪərɪə
cafeteria
ˌkæfɪˈtɪərɪə
criteria
kraɪˈtɪərɪə
cyanobacteria
ˌsaɪənəʊbækˈtɪərɪə
enterobacteria
ˌɛntərəʊbækˈtɪərɪə
eubacteria
ˌjuːbækˈtɪərɪə
exterior
ɪkˈstɪərɪə
groceteria
ˌɡrəʊsəˈtɪərɪə
interior
ɪnˈtɪərɪə
listeria
lɪsˈtɪərɪə
ministeria
ˌmɪnɪˈstɪərɪə
mycobacteria
ˌmaɪkəʊbækˈtɪərɪə
posterior
pɒˈstɪərɪə
Styria
ˈstɪərɪə
ulterior
ʌlˈtɪərɪə
washateria
ˌwɒʃəˈtɪərɪə
wisteria
wɪˈstɪərɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYSTERIA

hysterectomies
hysterectomise
hysterectomize
hysterectomy
hystereses
hysteresial
hysteresis
hysteresis loop
hysteretic
hysteretically
hysteric
hysterical
hysterically
hystericky
hysterics
hysteritis
hysterogenic
hysterogeny
hysteroid
hysteroidal

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYSTERIA

Algeria
coliform bacteria
corynebacteria
cowfeteria
feria
galleria
hatteria
imperia
Liberia
mass hysteria
mob hysteria
Nigeria
nitric bacteria
nitrobacteria
nitrous bacteria
pizzeria
psalteria
Santeria
trichobacteria
washeteria

Synonyms and antonyms of hysteria in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HYSTERIA»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hysteria» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hysteria

Translation of «hysteria» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYSTERIA

Find out the translation of hysteria to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hysteria from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hysteria» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

歇斯底里
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

histeria
570 millions of speakers

English

hysteria
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हिस्टीरिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهستيريا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

истерия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

histeria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিস্টিরিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hystérie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Histeria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hysterie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大騒ぎ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

히스테리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hysteria
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thần kinh loạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उन्माद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

histeri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

isteria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

histeria
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

істерія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

isterie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υστερία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

histerie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hysteri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hysteri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hysteria

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYSTERIA»

The term «hysteria» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.922 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYSTERIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hysteria» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hysteria» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hysteria

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10 QUOTES WITH «HYSTERIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hysteria.
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Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Marek Belka
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation.
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Helena Christensen
So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.
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Rachel Cusk
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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Alexandra Daddario
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
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Freeman Dyson
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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Rutger Hauer
I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.
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Siri Hustvedt
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
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Elia Kazan
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
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Lydia Lunch
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYSTERIA»

Discover the use of hysteria in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hysteria and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hysteria Beyond Freud
"Encyclopedically learned, up-to-date, authoritative, and altogether the best introduction to the subject that exists in any language."--Thomas Laqueur, author of "Making Sex"
Sander L. Gilman, 1993
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Studies On Hysteria
The cornerstone of psychoanalysis?and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration?featuring the classic case of Anna O. and the evolution of the cathartic method, in the definitive Strachey tran
Joseph Breuer, Sigmund Freud, 2009
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Hysteria
In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the ...
Christopher Bollas, 2000
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Hysteria
Mallory's life is falling apart.
Megan Miranda, 2013
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Hysteria: The Disturbing History
The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing.
Andrew Scull, 2011
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Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies
Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding.
Rebecca Kukla, 2005
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Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: The Splendid Child of ...
French edition published: [Paris]: aEditions Rivages, 1990.
Juan-David Nasio, Susan Fairfield, 1998
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Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European ...
Saint Hysteria examines scientific, literary, and religious texts that share a fascination with the otherness of the female body, whether in ecstatic pleasure or in neurotic pain.
Cristina Mazzoni, 1996
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Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-century Fictions of Hysteria
Sexing the Mind looks at scenes of hysteria in works by George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, and Henry James, as well as in the writings of Sigmund Freud, showing how these texts represent distinctive attempts to break loose from ...
Evelyne Ender, 1995
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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
As Dora falls into the paralysis of psychological hysteria, Freud uses all of his analytical genius and literary skill to explore Dora’s inner life and explain the cause of her neuroses.
Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYSTERIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hysteria is used in the context of the following news items.
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DONNIE COLUMN: Flag hysteria isn't good for nation …
Taking that flag down I can understand, but the hysteria surrounding this Southern heritage symbol in other venues is ridiculous. Removing ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
2
The GOP's apocalyptic tradition: How anti-communist hysteria paved …
The GOP's apocalyptic tradition: How anti-communist hysteria paved the way for a calamitous “War on Terror”. If Republican saber-rattling on ... «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Ronaldo Causes Hysteria In Australia - Soccer Laduma
Ronaldo Causes Hysteria In Australia. Cristiano Ronaldo Causes Hysteria In Austrailia. By SLinternational - Jul 16, 2015 05:45 PM. Thumbs_up. 0. 24. «Soccer Laduma, Jul 15»
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Beemageddon? As hysteria over endangered honey bees recedes …
Like the fictional parents in the edgy comedy show South Park who blame Canada for all of their woes, environmentals often coalesce around ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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Enough with Netanyahu's Iran deal hysteria - Opinion - Haaretz …
Enough with Netanyahu's Iran deal hysteria. Benjamin Netanyahu's attitude to Iran is tainted with an obsessiveness that sabotages Israel's ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
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The Death of Kathryn Steinle: Turning Tragedy into Racist, Anti …
The Death of Kathryn Steinle: Turning Tragedy into Racist, Anti-Immigrant Hysteria. by Bruce Neuburger – Andy Libson. by ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
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British Open 2015: Jordan Spieth aware but not fazed by grand slam …
British Open 2015: Jordan Spieth aware but not fazed by grand slam hysteria. Date: July 15, 2015 - 10:28PM. 12 reading now; (29); Be the first to comment «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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Leaders aim to avoid 'hysteria' over deadly deer disease - KVUE.com
Leaders aim to avoid 'hysteria' over deadly deer disease. State leaders are calling emergency meetings to address first captive case of chronic ... «KVUE, Jul 15»
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Def Leppard guitarist pours some sugar on new album
Boasting hits such as “Animal” and “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” “Hysteria” posted sales that eventually topped 15 million and made Def Leppard ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
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Streets of Bastrop Hysteria-Free as Military's Jade Helm 15 Set to …
Some people expressed concern that the special warfare training was just the first-step to martial law and a federal government takeover. «TWC News, Jul 15»

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