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hysteric

[ hi-ster-ik ]

noun

  1. Usually hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
  2. a person subject to hysteria.


adjective

hysteric

/ ɪˈɛɪ /

noun

  1. a hysterical person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. hysterical
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··ٱi noun adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hysteric1

1650–60; < Latin hystericus < Greek ٱó, suffering in the womb, hysterical (reflecting the Greeks' belief that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances in the uterus); hystero-, -ic
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hysteric1

C17: from Latin hystericus literally: of the womb, from Greek husterikos, from hustera the womb; from the belief that hysteria in women originated in disorders of the womb
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Once recovered and breathing properly, one snicker from either of us in remembrance of what had been so funny, and off we would go, falling back into hysterics.

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And in overtime, after he brought the score within one on a touchdown run, Penunuri needed just one more big play — to convert a two-point conversion to send Rio Hondo’s sideline into hysterics.

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In his new book "The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global," Stanford professor Adrian Daub argues that the hysterics over this alleged trend amount to a moral panic.

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As the scene ended, all the women were in hysterics, ribbing each other over how they could better play their parts next time.

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Freud’s famous case study of a “hysteric” cured by the nascent practice of psychoanalysis.

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