hysteria

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noun

Plural noun:

hysteriashysteriaehysteriæ

1.
(uncountable, usually)Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
2.
(uncountable, usually)(medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
3.
(informal, uncountable, usually)(informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
Đồng nghĩa: conversion disorder
4.
(historical, obsolete, uncountable, usually)(psychiatry, until early 20th century, now historical) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex.

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Đồng nghĩa

conversion disorderuterine melancholyobsolete female disorder uterine melancholyfemale hysteria

Cùng gốc / liên quan

homohysteriaanxiety hysteriaArctic hysteriacanine hysteriaconversion hysteriaecohysteriafemale hysteriahysteromass hysteriahysterichystericshystericalhysteric, hysterics

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine úd From hysteria, a back-formation from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (suffering in the uterus, hysterical), from ὑστέρα (womb). Compare hystérie.