Definition of Hysterics

1. Noun. An attack of hysteria.

Generic synonyms: Attack

Definition of Hysterics

1. n. pl. Hysteria.

Definition of Hysterics

1. Noun. an attack of hysteria ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hysterics

1. hysteric [n] - See also: hysteric

Medical Definition of Hysterics

1. Hysteria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hysterics

hysterical joint
hysterical neurosis
hysterical paralysis
hysterical polydipsia
hysterical pregnancy
hysterical psychosis
hysterical spinal neuralgia
hysterical syncope
hysterical torticollis
hysterical tremor
hysterical vertigo
hysterically
hystericalness
hysterick
hystericoneuralgic
hysterics
hysteriæ
hystero-
hystero-oophorectomy
hysterocatalepsy
hysterocele
hysterocleisis
hysterocystopexy
hysterodynia
hysteroepilepsies
hysteroepilepsy
hysterogenic
hysterogram
hysterograph

Literary usage of Hysterics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. No Name: A Novel by Wilkie Collins (1863)
"I instantly ran into the room, and found Magdu- i len on the sofa in violent hysterics, and Frank , standing staring at her with a lowering, angry face, ..."

2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"Unconsciousness ' in Hysterics. One of the most constant symptoms in persons suffering from hysteric disease in its extreme forms consists in alterations of ..."

3. The Writings of Charles Dickens: With Critical and Bibliographical by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... XVIII BRIEFLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF TWO POINTS : FIRST, THE POWER OF Hysterics, AND, SECONDLY, THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. FOR two days after the breakfast at ..."

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