different between outburst vs hysteria

English

Etymology

From Middle English outbersten, outbresten, equivalent to out- +? burst. Cognate with Dutch uitbarsten (“to erupt; burst out”), German ausbersten (“to burst out; erupt”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b?st/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b??st/
• Noun:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b?st/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b??st/
• Hyphenation: out?burst

Verb

outburst (third-person singular simple present outbursts, present participle outbursting, simple past outburst or outbrast, past participle outburst or outbursten)

1. (intransitive) To burst out.

Noun

outburst (plural outbursts)

1. a sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.

   The man greeted us with an outburst of invective.

Synonyms

• explosion

Antonyms

• inburst

Translations

Anagrams

• burst out, subtutor

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

Anagrams

• this year

Finnish

Noun

hysteria

1. hysteria

Declension

Compounds

• joukkohysteria