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Noun hysteria has 3 senses
- craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria - state of violent mental agitation
--1 is a kind of mania, manic disorder
--1 has particulars: nympholepsy; mass hysteria, epidemic hysertia
- hysteria - excessive or uncontrollable fear
--2 is a kind of fear, fearfulness, fright
- hysteria, hysterical neurosis - neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
--3 is a kind of neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis
--3 has parts: mimesis
--3 has particulars: anxiety hysteria; hysterocatalepsy
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