hysteria

Significado (Inglés)

1. (uncountable, usually) Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
2. (uncountable, usually) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
3. (informal, uncountable, usually) Synonym of conversion disorder.
4. (historical, obsolete, uncountable, usually) 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.

Conceptos

histeria

histerismo

conversión

excitación loca

manifestaciones corporales

delirio

mitoplastia

locura

Sinónimos

frenzy

mythoplasty

delirium

hysterical neurosis

fury

hysterics

hysterism

craze

windigo

convulsions

spasms

vaporousness

conversion

Traducciones

hystérie

Hysterie

isteria

histèria

hysterie

histeria

isterismo

υστερία

isteri

histeri

frénésie

verurteilen

Umwandlung

histerisme

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/hɪˈstɛɹiə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con francés: hystérie

In summary

From New Latin hysteria, a back-formation from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie.