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Definition
a state of violent mental agitation — especially uncontrollable fear
- It came to him that Gottlieb, in his secluded innocence, had not realized what it meant to gain leave to experiment amid the hysteria of an epidemic.Chapter 34 (11% in)
- The dining-room was gorgeous and very hideous, in stamped leather and hysterias of gold, with collections of servants watching one's use of asparagus forks.Chapter 29 (65% in)
- He flung out his arms in a dry hysteria.Chapter 33 (26% in)
There are no more uses of "hysteria" in Arrowsmith.
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