hysteria

hysteria has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.
• n.. excessive or uncontrollable fear
• n.. state of violent mental agitation
• n.. neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions