All 13 Uses
hysteria
in
Native Son
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- The hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself.†
Book 1hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- Bigger felt an urgent need to hide his growing and deepening feeling of hysteria" he had to get rid of it or else he would succumb to it.†
Book 1
- He frowned in the darkened movie, hearing the roll of tom-toms and the screams of black men and women dancing free and wild, men and women who were adjusted to their soil and at home in their world, secure from fear and hysteria.†
Book 1 *
- He turned and a hysterical terror seized him, as though he were falling from a great height in a dream.†
Book 1hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- He paused, hysterical.†
Book 1
- "Leave me alone," Bigger said, his voice tense and hysterical.†
Book 2
- He was full of hysteria.†
Book 2
- When his hysteria had passed, he got up from the floor.†
Book 3
- The same condition of hysteria exists all over this state.†
Book 3
- All of the factors in the present hysteria existed before Bigger Thomas was ever heard of.†
Book 3
- Who provoked this hysteria so that they might profit by it?†
Book 3
- The feeling of guilt which has caused all of the mob-fear and mob-hysteria is the counterpart of his own hate.†
Book 3
- Bigger was growing hysterical.†
Book 3hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
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)