Associations to the word «Hysteria»

Wiktionary

HYSTERIA, noun. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
HYSTERIA, noun. (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.

Dictionary definition

HYSTERIA, noun. State of violent mental agitation.
HYSTERIA, noun. Excessive or uncontrollable fear.
HYSTERIA, noun. Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats