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单词 hysteria
释义 hys·te·ria
\hə̇ˈsterēə, -tir-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric + New Latin -ia
1.
 a. : a psychoneurosis that is marked by emotional excitability involving disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
 b. : a similar disease of domesticated animals; specifically : canine hysteria
2. : conduct or an outbreak of conduct exhibiting unmanageable fear or emotional excess in individuals or groups
 < could not fail to destroy his system, never very strong and pitched to hysteria from the first — H.M.Ledig-Rowohlt >
 < weeping generously … and wildly giggling, in a hysteria which she could not control — Arnold Bennett >
 < swept up into the systematized hysteria of the war — Scott Fitzgerald >
 < the ghost dance was the religious expression of a social hysteria — W.W.Howells >
Synonyms: see mania
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