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
Emotional hysteria prompted that collapse in Belo Horizonte, but against Argentina, Brazil played without a midfield.
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Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
That made universities dangerous, and in the anti-communist hysteria of Cold War America, the government viewed them with suspicion.
—Time, 20 May 2025
TikTok stars spark viral hysteria over saccharine-smelling scrubs and mists.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 15 May 2025
As with the hysteria over cow killings, the furor takes form mostly on social media and platforms like WhatsApp, where rumors spread indiscriminately.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
That made universities dangerous, and in the anti-communist hysteria of Cold War America, the government viewed them with suspicion.
—Time, 20 May 2025
TikTok stars spark viral hysteria over saccharine-smelling scrubs and mists.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 15 May 2025
As with the hysteria over cow killings, the furor takes form mostly on social media and platforms like WhatsApp, where rumors spread indiscriminately.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hysteria
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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With Bush at the helm, fingers flying up and down the neck of his mandolin, the 73-year-old stirred the crowd into a frenzy.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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Meanwhile, Bradley, playing in front of his home crowd, sent the place into a frenzy.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Vance Boelter, who faces several charges in the deadly shooting of a Minnesota Democrat lawmaker and her husband, targeted four different lawmakers during his rampage, acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said during a press conference Monday.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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Scores of shocked people gathered near the scene of the crime to observe a minute of silence 24 hours after the rampage in the city of Graz, mourning the victims of one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.—
Frederik Pleitgen,
CNN Money,
11 June 2025
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“Hysteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hysteria. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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