All 11 Uses
hysteria
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Notes from the Underground
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- My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions.†
Chpt 2.1hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.†
Chpt 2.1
- I was not drunk—but what is one to do—depression will drive a man to such a pitch of hysteria?†
Chpt 2.1 *
- I kept asking myself in hysterical rage, waking up sometimes at three o'clock in the morning.†
Chpt 2.1hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- I frightened him with my passionate affection; I reduced him to tears, to hysterics.†
Chpt 2.3
- To think of having such an attack of womanish hysteria, pah!†
Chpt 2.8
- It was an hysterical attack.†
Chpt 2.9hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- Power, power was what I wanted then, sport was what I wanted, I wanted to wring out your tears, your humiliation, your hysteria—that was what I wanted then!†
Chpt 2.9
- Why, it's not once in a lifetime a man speaks out like this, and then it is in hysterics!†
Chpt 2.9
- I managed to articulate; then I went to the sofa, fell on it face downwards, and sobbed on it for a quarter of an hour in genuine hysterics.†
Chpt 2.9
- But the trouble was that the hysterics could not go on for ever, and (I am writing the loathsome truth) lying face downwards on the sofa with my face thrust into my nasty leather pillow, I began by degrees to be aware of a far-away, involuntary but irresistible feeling that it would be awkward now for me to raise my head and look Liza straight in the face.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(hysteria) a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotionIn addition to being the adjective form of hysteria, the form hysterical can also indicate that something is exceedingly funny (leading to uncontrollable laughter)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)