All 5 Uses
hysteria
in
It Happened to Nancy
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- My hysterical terror was being replaced by a calm peace.†
p. 4.6hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- I'm just hysterical, crazy, happy hysterical, but hysterical or not, I better go in and clean up the breakfast dishes and throw my bed together and my clothes that are on the floor under the bed or something, or blessed Collin will walk in and walk right out again.†
p. 21.7
- I'm just hysterical, crazy, happy hysterical, but hysterical or not, I better go in and clean up the breakfast dishes and throw my bed together and my clothes that are on the floor under the bed or something, or blessed Collin will walk in and walk right out again.†
p. 21.7
- I'm just hysterical, crazy, happy hysterical, but hysterical or not, I better go in and clean up the breakfast dishes and throw my bed together and my clothes that are on the floor under the bed or something, or blessed Collin will walk in and walk right out again.†
p. 21.7
- He laughed about my almost having been born in the car before he and Mom could get to the hospital, and about how he was the hysterical, almostout-of-control person that Mom had to soothe and comfort.†
p. 113.9 *
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)