overdramatics

noun

over·​dra·​mat·​ics ˌō-vər-drə-ˈma-tiks 

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

: overdramatic behavior or expression

My son is prone to overdramatics.

… degenerates into the sort of wearying overdramatics you'd expect from a bunch of drunk post-adolescents.

—Pete Vonder Haar

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overdramatics

• electrostatics
• psychosomatics
• acrobatics
• aromatics
• automatics
• hydrostatics
• informatics
• kinematics
• mathematics
• numismatics
• problematics
• systematics