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
Emotional hysteria prompted that collapse in Belo Horizonte, but against Argentina, Brazil played without a midfield.
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Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
That made universities dangerous, and in the anti-communist hysteria of Cold War America, the government viewed them with suspicion.
—Time, 20 May 2025
TikTok stars spark viral hysteria over saccharine-smelling scrubs and mists.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 15 May 2025
As with the hysteria over cow killings, the furor takes form mostly on social media and platforms like WhatsApp, where rumors spread indiscriminately.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
That made universities dangerous, and in the anti-communist hysteria of Cold War America, the government viewed them with suspicion.
—Time, 20 May 2025
TikTok stars spark viral hysteria over saccharine-smelling scrubs and mists.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 15 May 2025
As with the hysteria over cow killings, the furor takes form mostly on social media and platforms like WhatsApp, where rumors spread indiscriminately.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hysteria
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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With Bush at the helm, fingers flying up and down the neck of his mandolin, the 73-year-old stirred the crowd into a frenzy.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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Meanwhile, Bradley, playing in front of his home crowd, sent the place into a frenzy.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 June 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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