hysterics
English
Noun
hysterics pl (plural only)
- 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!
Derived terms
Translations
hysteria — see also hysteria
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