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A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Dawn Powell

Meaning of "hysterics" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYSTERICS

hysterics  [hɪˈstɛrɪks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYSTERICS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hysterics 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 HYSTERICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hysterics in the English dictionary

The definition of hysterics in the dictionary is an attack of hysteria. Other definition of hysterics is wild uncontrollable bursts of laughter.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYSTERICS


Asterix
ˈæstərɪks
atmospherics
ˌætməsˈfɛrɪks
Beatrix
ˈbiːətrɪks
biometrics
baɪəˈmɛtrɪks
BRICs
brɪks
dominatrix
ˌdɒmɪˈneɪtrɪks
econometrics
ɪˌkɒnəˈmɛtrɪks
electrics
ɪˈlɛktrɪks
geriatrics
ˌdʒɛrɪˈætrɪks
Hendrix
ˈhɛndrɪks
lyrics
ˈlɪrɪks
matrix
ˈmeɪtrɪks
mediatrix
ˌmiːdɪˈeɪtrɪks
metrics
ˈmɛtrɪks
obstetrics
ɒbˈstɛtrɪks
oryx
ˈɒrɪks
paediatrics
ˌpiːdɪˈætrɪks
pediatrics
ˌpiːdɪˈætrɪks
sferics
ˈsfɛrɪks
spherics
ˈsfɛrɪks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYSTERICS

hystereses
hysteresial
hysteresis
hysteresis loop
hysteretic
hysteretically
hysteria
hysteric
hysterical
hysterically
hystericky
hysteritis
hysterogenic
hysterogeny
hysteroid
hysteroidal
hysteromania
hysteron proteron
hysterotomies
hysterotomy

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYSTERICS

Balearics
catoptrics
cliometrics
combinatorics
dioptrics
furnishing fabrics
gyniatrics
isometrics
kinesiatrics
metempirics
morphometrics
physiatrics
plyometrics
psychogeriatrics
psychometrics
sabermetrics
theatrics
zoiatrics

Synonyms and antonyms of hysterics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hysterics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYSTERICS

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

Translator English - Chinese

歇斯底里
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

histeria
570 millions of speakers

English

hysterics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिरगी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نوبة ضحك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

истерика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

histeria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পেঁচো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crise de nerfs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Histeria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hysterie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヒステリーの発作
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

히스테리 상태
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hysterics
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cơn thần kinh kích động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வலிப்பு நோய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उन्माद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sinir krizi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crisi isterica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

histerii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

істерика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

istericale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υστερισμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

histerie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hysterikere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hysterics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYSTERICS»

The term «hysterics» is regularly used and occupies the 98.362 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYSTERICS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hysterics» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hysterics» 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 hysterics

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3 QUOTES WITH «HYSTERICS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hysterics.
1
Alexandra Daddario
You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going.
2
Hope Davis
I get to play a lot of hysterics.
3
Dawn Powell
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYSTERICS»

Discover the use of hysterics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hysterics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Serious Hysterics
In stories by eight women writers, characters must cope with the symptoms of supposedly hysterical ailments
Alison Fell, 1992
2
Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in ...
Hysterics are, not unexpectedly, hyperbolically loquacious: they deliver an irrepressible flow of words and noises that sometimes takes the structured form of fictions and lies. Richet describes the overpowering urge hysterics have to tell tales: ...
Janet L. Beizer, 1994
3
Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis
Subsequently, hysterics attempt to recuperate what they believe to be unjustly in the possession of the Other through arousing the Other's desire, which serves as sufficient proof that the Other has been deprived of something. This hysterical ...
Dany Nobus, 2013
4
Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European ...
the. "patron. §aint. of. hysterics." If. it. seems. puzzling. that. two. illustrious. members of the Viennese Jewish community should choose a Catholic patron saint for neurosis (and do so without explanation) the most important subtexts for the ...
Cristina Mazzoni, 1996
5
Information Computing and Applications: Second International ...
The coordinated development status of environment and economics city the type of coordinated degree development pattern TS good coordinated development economic model of environmental hysterics SJZ good coordinated development  ...
Chunfeng Liu, Jincai Chang, Aimin Yang, 2011
6
Transitions in Continental Philosophy
Although typically hysterics are women and obsessional neurotics are men, male hysterics and female obsessional neurotics suffer their illnesses differently, each retaining the speech patterns characteristic of their sex.13 Studying female ...
Arleen B. Dallery, Stephen H. Watson, E. Marya Bower, 1994
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Dimensions of Personality
Hollingworth (1920, 1931) found psychasthenics more intelligent than hysterics; Tendler (1923) found the opposite. Roe and Shakow (1942) and Malamud and Gottlieb (1944) found no great differences, while Eysenck (1944) reported higher  ...
Hans J. Eysenck, 1950
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The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the ...
With hysterics, the conflict itself is projected on to the other person, together with the locus and, in a certain sense, the point at which the conflict might emerge, with the aim of processing it there. The other person is controlled so that the self can ...
Jacqueline Schaeffer, 2011
9
The Annotated Secret Garden
"hysterics!" Nineteenth- and early-twentieth- century medical practitioners applied the term "hysteria" to a wide variety of symptoms, and its use goes back thousands of years. It was generally used to cloak issues of female sexuality, but what is ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Gerzina, 2007
10
Modern Feminisms: Political, Literary, Cultural
EXTRACT MR CHESTERTON IN HYSTERICS: A STUDY IN PREJUDICE [1913]* I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate ...
Maggie Humm, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYSTERICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hysterics is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The GOP's Iran Dilemma - Pat Buchanan - Page 1 - Townhall
But one trusts that, this time, the GOP will add a dose of salt to what the hysterics are bellowing. After all, it was Bibi's rants -- Iran is hellbent on ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
2
Sophie Monk and Jackie 'O' Henderson act like giggly teens on …
The blonde pair had listeners in hysterics earlier this week when they teamed up to co-host the Kyle And Jackie O Show after the 44-year-old ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Alicia Vikander and Eliot Sumner enjoy a smoking break in Ischia …
Eliot - daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler - burst into hysterics as they chatted in a cafe during a break from the Ischia Global Film & Music ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Colorblind Guy Sees Purple For The First Time With New Glasses …
He goes into complete hysterics. In a very low-key way, it looks like he's been given some sort of drug to induce extreme euphoria. (Like, Felix Felicis, for all you ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
5
The Dangers of Getting a Bikini Wax, According to My Gyno - Shape …
I went into instant hysterics. I racked my brain for previous sexual partners who could have given me an STD and made an appointment with my ... «Shape Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Bibi's Bombast Bamboozles Boehner - Antiwar.com Original
After all, how seriously are we supposed to take Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's loud hysterics? These reached a crescendo of ... «Antiwar.com, Jul 15»
7
Andre Iguodala Had Way Too Much Fun Trolling Warriors Fans Over …
Not wanting Dub Nation to throw itself into hysterics at the idea of losing their Finals MVP, Iguodala quickly let everyone know that he was ... «Next Impulse Sports, Jul 15»
8
Kerry V Cork: Plamas, picardia, and penalty pain | Irish Examiner
If there were ref microphones in football, you would be in hysterics at the dialogue between some of them and the match officials. A hand on the ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
9
Jade Helm 15 Has Begun: Here's Everything We Know So Far … - Vice
As paranoia reached a fever pitch, Abbott started easing up on the hysterics, claiming in May that he was "serving as a communication ... «VICE, Jul 15»
10
Not Tiger Shroff but Arijit Singh is the best thing to happen to Chal …
It's sweet and sublime without too much of hysterics which works for it. However, Arijit Singh's soulful voice just makes this such a pleasure to ... «Bollywood Life, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hysterics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hysterics>. May 2024 ».
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