hysterics

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Noun

hysterics

  1. plural of hysteric

Noun

hysterics pl (plural only)

  1. Hysteria.
    Her hysterics are uncontrollable.
    The jokes had me in hysterics.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Night with the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 317:
      But when they went to tread down the earth, it seemed to her like sacrilege; and, forgetting every thing in one strong emotion, she sprang forward to prevent it. The effort was too much; and, for the first time, she sank back in the arms of the servants in strong hysterics!


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