Hysteria

GRE Barron

[编辑] 解释

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus
Date: 1801
1. a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
2. behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess <political hysteria>
? hysteric noun
? hysterical also hysteric adjective
? hysterically adverb