hysteric
noun
hys·ter·ic
hi-ˈster-ik 
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Viewer Reactions Instagram users flooded the video with hysterics over the unusual pet these workers found, and as of Tuesday, the clip reached over 82,000 likes and nearly 430 comments.
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
But in preseason camp, Drinkwitz watched Hardy send his experienced, first-team defense into hysterics trying to tackle him.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
This reversal of affect, with its excessive intensity, marks Dora as a hysteric.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
The scene in the lobby yawed from hysteric to melancholic and back—hundreds of people surrounded by tote bags and dogs, trading rumors, bleak jokes, and fragments of actual news.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
But in preseason camp, Drinkwitz watched Hardy send his experienced, first-team defense into hysterics trying to tackle him.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
This reversal of affect, with its excessive intensity, marks Dora as a hysteric.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
The scene in the lobby yawed from hysteric to melancholic and back—hundreds of people surrounded by tote bags and dogs, trading rumors, bleak jokes, and fragments of actual news.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Hysteric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysteric. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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hysteric
noun
hys·ter·ic
his-ˈter-ik
: an individual subject to or affected by hysteria
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