noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both seemed helpless, and Mrs Garfitt was working up to hysterics .
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He still felt ill, but the hysterics seemed to have relaxed him a bit.
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He waited for her reaction, anticipating the floor of tears and the hysterics .
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I made up some very strange names which sent them into hysterics .
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Occasionally the whole class dissolves into hysterics for about five minutes and then refuses to tell me what I have said.
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Onyx Muggeridge would certainly, in her language, have had hysterics .