transcription, транскрипция: [ his-ˈter-ē-ə, -ˈtir- ]
noun
Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus
Date: 1801
1. : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
2. : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess
political hysteria
• hys·ter·ic -ˈter-ik noun
• hys·ter·i·cal -ˈter-i-kəl also hysteric adjective
• hys·ter·i·cal·ly -i-k(ə-)lē adverb