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Hysteria used colloquially means ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion.

Hysteria or Histeria may also refer to:

Music

• Hysteria (The Human League album), a 1984 album
• Hysteria (Def Leppard album), a 1987 album
• "Hysteria" (Def Leppard song), a 1987 song
• "Hysteria" (Muse song), a 2003 song
• "Hysteria" (Anna Abreu song), a 2011 song
• Hysteria (Katharine McPhee album), a 2015 album
• Hysteria, a 2020 album by Chihiro Onitsuka

Film and television

• Hysteria (1965 film), a British film directed by Freddie Francis
• Hysteria (1997 film), a British-Canadian film directed by Rene Daalder
• Hysteria (2011 film), a British film directed by Tanya Wexler

Other uses

• Hysteria (periodical), a British feminist publication
• Hysteria (play), by Terry Johnson, 1993
• Hysteria Reinw., a synonym of Corymborkis, an orchid genus
• Hysteria, a fictional organism in the TV program Extraterrestrial
• Hysteria, a comedy show series for the Terrence Higgins Trust

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hysteria
• All pages with titles containing Hysteria
• Histeria (disambiguation)
• Hysteresis, the dependence of the state of a system on its history
• Hysteron proteron, a rhetorical device
• Four discourses, a concept by Jacques Lacan, including "Hysteric"
• Mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria
• Studies on Hysteria, an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud