All 9 Uses of
hysteria
in
The Fountainhead
- You worked too hard and overdid it, and you just got a mite hysterical.†
Chpt 1.12hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- Well, now, Peter, don't get hysterical.†
Chpt 1.12
- It was a last, hysterical aftermath; she was free of everything else.†
Chpt 2.2
- I want you—like this—not hysterical with desire—but coldly and consciously—without dignity and without regrets—I want you—I have no self-respect to bargain with me and divide me—I want you—I want you like an animal, or a cat on a fence, or a whore.†
Chpt 2.7
- A hysterical devotion to one's career does not make for happiness or success.†
Chpt 2.9
- Wynand laughed; he laughed too long, as if he could not stop it; his laughter had an edge of hysteria.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- I'm only hysterical, but it's quite all right, I'm saying something, I don't know what it is, but it must be all right, they are both listening and answering, Gail is smiling, I must be saying the proper things.... Dinner was announced and she rose obediently; she led the way to the dining room, like a graceful animal given poise by conditioned reflexes.†
Chpt 4.4hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- They heard the rising inflection of hysteria in Mitchell Layton's voice.†
Chpt 4.6
- Hysterical, but sweet.†
Chpt 4.7hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
Definition:
a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotion
In addition to being the adjective form of hysteria, the form hysterical can also indicate that something is exceedingly funny (leading to uncontrollable laughter)