hysteria
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Definition of hysteria
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Synonyms for hysteria
Synonyms
agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, rage, rampage, uproar
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Reporters on hand described him on the sidelines of a preseason game against the Chicago Bears as the news broke, just quietly talking to teammates as if the pomp and hysteria had no remaining draw on him whatsoever. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "Andrew Luck Stuns the Football World, Walks Away at Age 29," 24 Aug. 2019 Unlike in 2014, when fear of an Ebola epidemic in the United States reached something approaching hysteria, few are aware. — Dallas News, "Amid a new outbreak, book revisits Ebola's ravages," 5 Aug. 2019 The revolt provoked near-hysteria among white people not just in Virginia but across the South. — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood," 18 July 2019 Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist,’’ Douglas claimed primary credit for hiring Trumbo, securing the writer’s screen credit, and striking the decisive blow against anticommunist hysteria in Hollywood. — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Edward Lewis, ‘Spartacus’ producer who helped break the blacklist, dies at 99," 14 Aug. 2019 His cherry-picking egregious examples of anti-Catholic hysteria in England ignores the very real threat of the Counter-Reformation to Protestant states across Europe. — James P. Sutton, National Review, "In Defense of the Glorious Revolution," 19 July 2019 By comparison, the hysteria in the global north over international migrants seems a pale sideshow. — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, "A storyteller chronicles the mass migrations that define our age," 17 July 2019 Park, who in 2017 became the first rookie since Lopez to win Player of the Year honors, is met by the kind of hysteria in South Korea typically reserved for its pop bands. — Karen Crouse, New York Times, "L.P.G.A. Has an Abundance of Stars but Scarcely a Stage," 24 June 2019 The Salem witch trials, explained by politics What exactly caused the mass hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and 1693 is still a subject that divides historians and others who study the witch trials. — Dylan Scott, Vox, "Trump’s favorite slander against Robert Mueller’s investigation has a very long history.," 26 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hysteria.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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