Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person suffering from hysteria.
- n. A fit of uncontrollable laughing or crying.
- n. An attack of hysteria.
- adj. Hysterical.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to, resulting from, affected with, or subject to hysteria.
- Having the characteristics of hysteria; emotionally disordered; fitful; frantic.
- n. A fit of hysteria: commonly in the plural.
- n. A hysteric person; one who suffers from hysteria.
- Same as hysteretic.
Wiktionary
- adj. hysterical
- n. A hysterical person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to hysteria.
- adj. In a state of hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; uncontrollably emotional; convulsive, fitful.
- adj. In a state of panic or behaving in a wild irrational manner, due to fear or emotional trauma.
- adj. Resembling hysteria.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person suffering from hysteria
- adj. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
Etymologies
- From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (hysterikos, "suffering in the uterus, hysterical"), from ὑστέρα (hustera, "womb"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin hystericus, hysterical, from Greek husterikos, from husterā, womb (from the former idea that disturbances in the womb caused hysteria). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ball 17.38 records a curious case of what he calls hysteric aphonia.”
“Ball records a curious case of what he calls hysteric aphonia.”
“An intriguing analogue to the feminist hysteric is the homosexual activist. ”
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“The wandering phallus of the male hysteric is not pathological because it moves about.”
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“The problem with the male hysteric is that his phallus wanders from the prescribed circuits of ownership and exchange.”
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“The others seemed to be on my side; they have her characterized as a hysteric who sees ghosts.”
“Like a the typical sexist writer, he invoked the word "hysteric" to describe her.”
“Or is that really any more helpful than those absurd late nineteenth-century attempts to classify Teresa of Avila as a 'hysteric'?”
“The whole point of a false confession is to attract attention and the kind of hysteric who does that doesn't defeat his own object by committing suicide immediately afterwards. ”
“One of them sat baling the blood and water out of the canoe, uttering a kind of hysteric laugh, while the other, a youth of fifteen, looked at the dead body with a serious and dejected countenance.”
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