hysteria

== English == === Etymology === From New Latin hysteria, a back-formation from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /hɪˈstɛɹiə/, /hɪˈstɪɹiə/ Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə === Noun === hysteria (usually uncountable, plural hysterias or hysteriae or hysteriæ) Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear. (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause. (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder. (psychiatry, until early 20th century, now historical) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex. ==== Usage notes ==== Some usage advisers recommend caution with the terms hysteria and hysterical, because the medical and psychiatric senses of the terms over the centuries have been inextricably bound up with bias via stereotypes about gender; in medicine, the words are no longer nosologically current. Some advisers recommend avoiding these words even in the broadest sense that is arguably gender-neutral (i.e., denoting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, from joy to panic, as in hysterical crowds of sports fans). The usage and its cultural underpinnings are discussed at Wikipedia > Hysteria. ==== Synonyms ==== (obsolete female disorder): uterine melancholy ==== Hyponyms ==== (mental disorder): female hysteria, Arctic hysteria, piblokto ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== hysteric, hysterics hysterical ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “hysteria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hysteria”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “hysteria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === this year == Finnish == === Etymology === Internationalism (see English hysteria), ultimately from New Latin hysteria. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhysteriɑ/, [ˈhys̠te̞ˌriɑ̝] Rhymes: -iɑ Syllabification(key): hys‧te‧ri‧a Hyphenation(key): hys‧te‧ria === Noun === hysteria hysteria ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “hysteria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023