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hysteria
Synonyms and Antonyms of hysteria
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 Synonyms agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, furor, furore, fury, frenzy, rage, rampage, uproarRelated Words chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil; bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tempest, tumultNear Antonyms calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness
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