Synonyms of the word hysteria


HYSTERIACRAZE - DELIRIUM - FEAR - FEARFULNESS - FRENZY - FRIGHT - FURY - MANIA - NEUROSIS - NEUROTICISM - PSYCHONEUROSIS

hysteria

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

craze

  • n. (archaic) craziness; insanity.
  • n. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
  • n. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
  • n. (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
  • v. (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • v. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • v. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

delirium

  • n. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability…

fear

  • n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
  • n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
  • n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
  • v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
  • v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
  • v. (transitive) Regret.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
  • adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

  • n. The quality of being fearful.

frenzy

  • n. A state of wild activity or panic.
  • n. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
  • v. (uncommon) To render frantic.
  • v. (rare) To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.

fright

  • n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
  • n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
  • adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

fury

  • n. Extreme anger.
  • n. Strength or violence in action.
  • n. An angry or malignant person.
  • n. (obsolete) A thief.

mania

  • n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  • n. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  • n. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

neurosis

  • n. (pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear.

neuroticism

  • n. The quality or state of being neurotic.

psychoneurosis

  • n. (dated) neurosis.

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