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hysteria

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hysteria noun
a state of extreme, uncontrolled emotion or excitement, typically used as a loanword in a psychological context

This disease is known as hysteria in medicine.

hysterical proper name
behaving with or characterized by wild, uncontrolled emotion

His reaction was very hysterical, which surprised everyone.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
3.01 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.05 per million

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