2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
a state of violent mental agitation — especially uncontrollable fear
- The materialist, as the son of a philosophy of pure robust health, can never be argued out of his belief that the mind is a phosphorescent product of matter; whereas the idealist, who proceeds from the principle of creative hysteria, will tend to answer, indeed will very soon definitively answer the question of primacy in exactly opposite terms.7.8 - Highly Questionable (5% in)
- ...with masked forms of love in action or the transformation of illness back into conscious emotion, but with the abstruse oddities of hypnotism and somnambulism, the phenomena of telepathy, prophetic dreams, and second sight, the wonders of hysteria; and as he discussed these topics, philosophic horizons expanded until suddenly his audience beheld great riddles shimmering before their eyes, riddles about the relationship between matter and the psyche, indeed, the very riddle of life...7.8 - Highly Questionable (1% in)
There are no more uses of "hysteria" in The Magic Mountain.
Typical Usage
(best examples)