noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mass
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Now they've started to appear over here. Mass hysteria ?
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But the news of serial killings last year led to near mass hysteria .
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Total confusion reigns supreme, and an atmosphere close to mass hysteria ensues.
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Was this all just a matter of runaway credulity, mass hysteria , or overwrought salesmanship?
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I've never before or since seen instant mass hysteria to match it.
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All they had in common was their sense of urgency: the mass hysteria that characterizes the week before Christmas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the 1950s, the U.S. was gripped by anti-Communist hysteria .
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The hysteria of the screaming girls was somewhat frightening.
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The pushing and grabbing at yesterday's sales bordered on mass hysteria .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the news of serial killings last year led to near mass hysteria .
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Given the pluralistic nature of society, they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation.
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Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria .
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Isabel screamed again, twisting her head from side to side, catapulted brutally into panic-stricken hysteria .
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It was difficult, however, to develop a comprehensive program in this atmosphere of fear, even hysteria .
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She suggests that hysteria was an alternative role option for women incapable of accepting their life situation in rigid family roles.
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What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics.