hysteria
See also: hystéria
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value NL. is not valid. See WT:LOL. hysteria, from hysteric, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hystericus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value US is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /hɨˈstɛɹijə/, /hɨˈstɪɹijə/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
hysteria (usually uncountable, plural hysterias or hysteriae or hysteriæ)
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
- (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
- 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 13, in The Myth of Mental Illness[1], →ISBN, page 218:
- The typical cases of hysteria cited by Freud thus involved a moral conflict—a conflict about what the young women in question wanted to do with themselves. Did they want to prove that they were good daughters by taking care of their sick fathers? Or did they want to become independent of their parents, by having a family of their own, or in some other way? I believe it was the tension between these conflicting aspirations that was the crucial issue in these cases. The sexual problem—say, of the daughter's incestuous cravings for her father—was secondary (if that important); it was stimulated, perhaps, by the interpersonal situation in which the one had to attend to the other's body. Moreover, it was probably easier to admit the sexual problem to consciousness and to worry about it than to raise the ethical problem indicated. In the final analysis, the latter is a vastly difficult problem in living. It cannot be "solved" by any particular maneuver but requires rather decision making about basic goals, and, having made the decisions, dedicated efforts to attain them.
- (informal, pathology) Synonym of conversion disorder
- (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
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Translations
behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion
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medical disorder
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Further reading
- “hysteria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “hysteria”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “hysteria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Finnish
Noun
hysteria
Declension
Inflection of hysteria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | hysteria | hysteriat | ||
genitive | hysterian | hysterioiden hysterioitten | ||
partitive | hysteriaa | hysterioita | ||
illative | hysteriaan | hysterioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | hysteria | hysteriat | ||
accusative | nom. | hysteria | hysteriat | |
gen. | hysterian | |||
genitive | hysterian | hysterioiden hysterioitten hysteriain rare | ||
partitive | hysteriaa | hysterioita | ||
inessive | hysteriassa | hysterioissa | ||
elative | hysteriasta | hysterioista | ||
illative | hysteriaan | hysterioihin | ||
adessive | hysterialla | hysterioilla | ||
ablative | hysterialta | hysterioilta | ||
allative | hysterialle | hysterioille | ||
essive | hysteriana | hysterioina | ||
translative | hysteriaksi | hysterioiksi | ||
abessive | hysteriatta | hysterioitta | ||
instructive | — | hysterioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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