hysteria

“Before every election, American authorities and media descend into hysteria about ‘Russain disinformation and inference,’” the embassy wrote.

This explains the moral hysteria over gender-affirming care for minors that has spread across the country’s red states.

Giving evidence remotely from prison, he claimed it was not him who coined the term "cleavage-sparing mastectomy" and said it was the phrase that had "caused the hysteria".

Adelaide worries there could be “a wave of hysteria in the student community” because the anxiety about the total cost of going to university is high.

And hysteria, marked by uncontrolled emotion and frenetic excitement, was the manner in which these investigations into consciousness were conducted.