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Synonyms & 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 for hysteria
- agitation,
- deliriousness,
- delirium,
- distraction,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- flap,
- frenzy,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- rage,
- rampage,
- uproar
Words Related to hysteria
Near Antonyms for hysteria
- calm,
- calmness,
- peace,
- peacefulness,
- placidity,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- repose,
- restfulness,
- sereneness,
- serenity,
- still,
- stillness,
- tranquillity
- (or tranquility),
- tranquilness
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Time Traveler for hysteria
The first known use of hysteria was in 1772
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