different between hysteria vs hysterics

English

Etymology

From New Latin hysteria, from hysteric, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ?????? (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /h??st??ij?/, /h??st??ij?/
• Rhymes: -???i?

Noun

hysteria (usually uncountable, plural hysterias or hysteriae or hysteriæ)

1. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
2. (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
3. (informal, pathology) Synonym of conversion disorder
4. (obsolete, pathology, until early 20th century) 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.

Synonyms

• (mental disorder): female hysteria
• (obsolete female disorder): uterine melancholy

Derived terms

Related terms

• hysteric, hysterics
• hysterical

Translations

Further reading

• hysteria in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hysteria in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• hysteria at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Finnish

Noun

hysteria

1. hysteria

Declension

Compounds

• joukkohysteria

English

Noun

hysterics

1. plural of hysteric

Noun

hysterics pl (plural only)

1. Hysteria.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with histrionics.

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