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n. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.

n. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.

n. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.

n. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.

n. A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

n. A nervous disease involving no recognizable anatomical lesion, characterized by unrestrained desire to attract. attention and sympathy, more or less coordinated convulsions, globus and clavus hystericus, anæsthesia, hyperæsthesia, motor paralysis, vasomotor derangements, etc. Women are much more frequently affected in this way than men. Also called hysterics.

n. excessive or uncontrollable fear

n. neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

n. state of violent mental agitation

"His theories took hold in American psychiatry, and the term hysteria came to mean “emotionally charged situations … symbolic of underlying conflicts.”"

fearfulness    fright    fear   

hysterical    hysteric   

convulsion    hysterics    tarantism    conniptions    vapors    lata    miryachit   

Bavaria    Beria    Bulgaria    Santeria    area    feria    honoraria    malaria   

insanity    panic    paranoia    nervousness    epilepsy    exhaustion    neurosis    hallucination    insomnia    depression