hysteria

/hɨˈstɛɹijə/noun

A disorder in which a person has physical symptoms such as numbness, blindness, or paralysis that no medical cause can explain.

Example sentence

“The doctors suspected the patient's sudden paralysis was a case of hysteria.”

In everyday use it means uncontrolled panic or excitement spreading through a group: 'mass hysteria'. The clinical sense is dated in medicine.

Related words

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