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HYSTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive or uncontrollable fear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):
fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
Derivation:
hysterical (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
State of violent mental agitation
Synonyms:
craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):
mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysteria"):
nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)
epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)
Derivation:
hysterical (marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
Synonyms:
hysteria; hysterical neurosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hysteria" is a kind of...):
neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis (a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction)
Meronyms (parts of "hysteria"):
mimesis (any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysteria"):
anxiety hysteria (a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis)
hysterocatalepsy (hysteria with cataleptic symptoms)
Derivation:
hysteric; hysterical (characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria)
