Usually means: Exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention.
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  1. histrionics: Merriam-Webster
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  3. histrionics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. histrionics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. histrionics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. histrionics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Histrionics (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  16. histrionics: FreeDictionary.org
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(Note: See histrionic as well.)

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noun:  Exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics.

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