"hysteria" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

State of violent mental agitation (synset 114415281)
is a type of: mania, manic disorder - a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
subtypes:
- nympholepsy - a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable
- epidemic hysertia, mass hysteria - a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation
same as: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury
Excessive or uncontrollable fear (synset 107535746)
is a type of: fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions (synset 114416843)
is a type of: neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis - a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
subtypes:
- anxiety hysteria - a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis
- hysterocatalepsy - hysteria with cataleptic symptoms
has: mimesis - any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease

same as: hysterical neurosis