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hysteria

noun as in state of extreme upset

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“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.

The best way to fix the Internet would be to let the Kardashian butt hysteria die down.

Korematsu knew firsthand the dangers of war-time hysteria and pleaded that we not make that mistake again.

I might suggest a title:  “Andromeda Strain 2: The Predictable Hysteria.”

At the time, before ISIS had conquered Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, the attack evoked outrage but not hysteria.

Its internal uses are in hysteria, and 136 in such conditions as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera.

The walking may simulate paralytic forms if hysteria is mixed with the neurasthenia.

There is no direct connection between hysteria and the disorders of the sexual organs.

The Tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.

There are numerous theories formulated to explain hysteria; some are ingenious, especially that of Janet, but none is convincing.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hysteria, such as: agitation, delirium, excitement, frenzy, madness, and nervousness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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