as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
the hysteria of the mother when she realized that she had lost her four-year-old son in the crowd
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Recent Examples of hysteria
Albritton emphasized the traditional role of the Senate in curbing ideological hysteria.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Your mother’s people, her father had told her ominously, on more than one occasion, are prone to hysteria.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Your mother’s people, her father had told her ominously, on more than one occasion, are prone to hysteria.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hysteria
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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The remarkable volume indicates that institutions were also engaged, likely covering short positions or supplying liquidity to the retail buying frenzy.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Here, too, DaCosta’s reconfiguration of Ibsen, by making Hedda Gabler’s former lover (and her husband’s main professional rival) a woman, and by greatly expanding that role, offers Nina Hoss a showcase for intellectual passion and romantic frenzy.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Kibbutz Nir Oz, an Israeli settlement near the Gaza border, had the highest number of casualties in the Hamas attacks, with a quarter of its residents either kidnapped or killed during the Palestinian militant group’s rampage through southern Israel.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
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And where there’s no constitutional counterforce, as with the pardon power, there’s just a rampage of corruption.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Hysteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hysteria. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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