hysteric

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a person suffering from hysteria
  • Adjective:
    characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

Word Origin

hysteric (adj.)
1650s, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos “belonging to the womb” (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 .

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