hysteric
pronunciation
How to pronounce hysteric in British English: UK [hɪs'terɪk]
How to pronounce hysteric in American English: US [hɪs'terɪk]
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- Noun:
- a person suffering from hysteria
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- Adjective:
- characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
Word Origin
- hysteric (adj.)
- 1650s, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos âbelonging to the wombâ (see hysterical). As a noun from 1751.
Example
- 1. I whooped as we both broke our with hysteric laughs .
- 2. I managed to say in between hysteric laughs .
- 3. He tried hypnotism with his hysteric and neurotic patients , but gradually discarded the practice .
- 4. I don 't think that was an injury , only a hysteric crises .
- 5. I would say that freud would certainly have made a perfect impassioned idealist had he not devoted himself to the other , in the form of the hysteric .