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Hysteria

noun

State of violent mental agitation. Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury.

Excessive or uncontrollable fear.

Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions. Synonym: hysterical neurosis.

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"Hysteria" Quotes from Famous Books

... deal of the poet-neuropath and very little of the murderer for ambition's sake in this lyrical hysteria. No wonder Lady Macbeth declares she would be ashamed "to wear a heart so white." It is all Hamlet over again, Hamlet wrought up to a higher pitch of intensity. And here it should be remembered that "Macbeth" was written three years after "Hamlet" and probably just before "Lear"; one would ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... her inside, and laid her on the caned couch in the living-room, looking like a great, big, helpless, gray-haired baby, as any man is prone to do when he has hysteria to deal with in a woman ...

— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy

... hands and smiling until the train was out of sight. I turned in disgust to walk away when a woman near me fainted, and I caught her as she fell. Then a low moan went up all over that station platform. It was as if those mothers moaned as one. There was no hysteria, just a low moan that swept over them. I saw dozens of them sink to the floor unconscious. They had kept their grief to themselves until their lads had gone. They had sent their boys away with a smile, and had kept their heartache buried until ...

— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger

... ago I wrote House of some such incidents and expressions as these; and he wrote me that they were only part and parcel of the continuous British criticism of their own Government—in other words, a part of the passing hysteria of war. This remark shows how House was living ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick

... "Public hysteria has killed a man before this," he said, when I had read it. "Suppose that woman had been mangled, or the screw of the steamer had cut her head off! How many people do you suppose would have been willing to swear that it was ...

— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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