hysteria

hysteria
    n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze},
         {delirium}, {frenzy}, {fury}, {hysteria}]
    2: excessive or uncontrollable fear
    3: neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional
       outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
       [syn: {hysteria}, {hysterical neurosis}]
    

Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
   {Hysteric}.] (Med.)
   A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
   in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
   exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
   so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
   the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
   paroxism or fits.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
         the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
         and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
         throat. The affection presents the most varied
         symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
         diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
         alone. Hysteric
    

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "hysteria":
      abandon, abstraction, abulia, accident neurosis, alienation,
      anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis,
      anxiety state, apathy, association neurosis, battle fatigue,
      blast neurosis, catatonic stupor, combat fatigue,
      compensation neurosis, compulsion, compulsion neurosis,
      conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, craze, dejection,
      delirium, depression, detachment, ecstasy, elation, emotionalism,
      euphoria, expectation neurosis, fire and fury, fixation neurosis,
      folie du doute, frenzy, fright neurosis, furor, furore, fury,
      homosexual neurosis, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hysterics,
      indifference, insensibility, intoxication, lethargy, madness,
      mania, melancholia, mental distress, neurosis, neuroticism,
      obsession, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, orgasm,
      orgy, passion, pathological indecisiveness, pathoneurosis, phobia,
      preoccupation, psychalgia, psychasthenia, psychomotor disturbance,
      psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia martialis,
      rage, rapture, ravishment, regression neurosis, shell shock,
      situational neurosis, stupor, tearing passion, tic, towering rage,
      transport, twitching, unresponsiveness, war neurosis, withdrawal