All 21 Uses of
hysteria
in
The Bourne Identity
- There were psychological studies of emotional stress that produced stagnate hysteria and mental aphasia, conditions which also resulted in partial or total loss of memory.†
Chpt 2
- The physical wounds tell us that the situation in which you found yourself was packed with psychological stress, the subsequent hysteria brought on by at least nine hours in the water, which served to solidify the psychological damage.†
Chpt 2
- The darkness, the violent movement, the lungs barely getting air; these were the instruments of hysteria.†
Chpt 2 *
- Everything that preceded it-the hysteria-had to be erased so you could cope, survive.†
Chpt 2
- The psychological stress, the hysteria.†
Chpt 2
- At least one or two nights on the water, if Lamouche keeps to schedule-that's the hostile environment which contributed to your hysteria-and exposure to resentment and suspicion from men around you-symbolic of the initial stress situation.†
Chpt 2
- The collision was abrupt, casual, but the eyes that stared at him were not casual; they seemed to burst out of their sockets, widening in disbelief, on the edge of hysteria.†
Chpt 3
- A man on the edge of hysteria, disbelief in his eyes; a would-be killer who had raced out of Le Bouc de Mer into the shadows of the rue Sarrasin less than twenty-four hours ago.†
Chpt 5
- He yanked the girl along the cement floor; she tried to pull away, kicking again, twisting her body again from one side to the other; she was over the edge of hysteria He had no choice; he gripped her elbow, his thumb on the inner flesh, and pressed as hard as he could.†
Chpt 5
- He had to control her by fear, but not to the point where she might slip into hysterics.†
Chpt 6
- You were very close to hysterics, and I'm not trained in things like that.†
Chpt 11
- He threw the man's gun under the van, got up and plunged into the hysterical crowds on the pavement.†
Chpt 13hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- Considering what happened this afternoon, if she were a direct relay to Carlos, she should have been close to hysterics.†
Chpt 18
- He turned, trying to find the cause of her hysterics.†
Chpt 18
- The minutes passed, hysteria ran its course and the outlines of reality came back into focus.†
Chpt 18
- Fury was suddenly joined by hatred, not shock, not hysteria, but deep, uncompromising abhorrence.†
Chpt 25
- The salesclerk was transfixed, his panic suspended in silent hysteria.†
Chpt 27
- As incredible as Claude's hysterical screaming-the things he said.†
Chpt 28hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- People running around, hysterical meetings in the aisles, looking at me strangely, passing my cubicle and turning their heads.†
Chpt 28
- Hysteria swept through the crowds.†
Chpt 30
- Jason raced through the panicked crowd, shoving the automatic into his belt, separating the hysterical bodies that stood between himself and the man who could give him the answers.†
Chpt 30hysterical = 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)