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
An Early Frost attempted the nearly impossible: Transform hysteria into empathy.
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Hal Rubenstein, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
While posed as being about a threat from without, this U.S. hysteria had everything to do with domestic realities.
—Time, 9 June 2025
The Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision went to The Librarians, Kim A. Snyder’s film about unhinged attacks on librarians that have sprung up around the country in a wave of conservative disinformation and hysteria.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 May 2025
Phoenix’s sheriff is baffled by mask policies and the apparent hysteria among the townspeople, while Pascal’s mayor is toeing the line (while also making dubious business deals with big tech to build a data center on the town’s outskirts).
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
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Hal Rubenstein, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
While posed as being about a threat from without, this U.S. hysteria had everything to do with domestic realities.
—Time, 9 June 2025
The Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision went to The Librarians, Kim A. Snyder’s film about unhinged attacks on librarians that have sprung up around the country in a wave of conservative disinformation and hysteria.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 May 2025
Phoenix’s sheriff is baffled by mask policies and the apparent hysteria among the townspeople, while Pascal’s mayor is toeing the line (while also making dubious business deals with big tech to build a data center on the town’s outskirts).
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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Another trait often ascribed to footballers is courage — the kind that enables them to put their head into a frenzy of flying boots, or take a decisive penalty when thousands are willing them to fail.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
6 July 2025
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That one came down to a late penalty and sent the French crowd into a frenzy.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025
Noun
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Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara in 2018.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Jurors entered their third week Monday deliberating the fate of Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student accused in a 2023 knife rampage that killed two men in Davis and nearly killed a woman experiencing homelessness.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2025
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“Hysteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hysteria. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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