Usually means: Excessive emotional and psychological response.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word hysteria:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hysteria: Merriam-Webster
  2. hysteria: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hysteria: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hysteria: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hysteria: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hysteria, hysteria: Wordnik
  7. hysteria: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hysteria: Wiktionary
  9. hysteria: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hysteria: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hysteria: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hysteria: Dictionary.com
  13. hysteria: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hysteria (Def Leppard album), Hysteria (Def Leppard song), Hysteria (Human League album), Hysteria (Katharine McPhee album), Hysteria (Muse song), Hysteria (The Human League album), Hysteria (disambiguation), Hysteria (periodical), Hysteria (play), Hysteria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hysteria: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hysteria: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hysteria: Rhymezone
  18. hysteria: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hysteria: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hysteria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hysteria: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hysteria: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hysteria (album), hysteria: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hysteria: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hysteria: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hysteria: Merck Manuals
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  6. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. hysteria: Medical dictionary
  9. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. hysteria: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See hysterias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
noun:  (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
noun:  (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder
noun:  (psychiatry, until early 20th century, now historical) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex.

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