hysterics

/ (hɪˈstɛrɪks) /

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noun (functioning as plural or singular)

an attack of hysteria

informal wild uncontrollable bursts of laughter

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Words nearby hysterics

hysteria, hysteric, hysterical, hysterical personality, hysterical psychosis, hysterics, hystero-, hysterocatalepsy, hysterocele, hysterocleisis, hysterodynia

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“I have a horror of hysterics or sentimentality,” he explained.
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And as soon as James yelled “cut,” they both burst into hysterics.
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Though she prefers the phrase “going away” to the word “jail,” which sent her into hysterics in a recent episode.
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The Newsroom transforms its female characters into hysterics and fools.
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Back in 2007, a bubbly Diaz showed Jay Leno her burping skills on late-night TV and then went into hysterics.
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Bianchi rightly calls attention to the fact, that hysterics like to write anonymous letters.
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You've got to let me go to bed and sleep, or I believe I'll have hysterics and yell the house down.
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They have such a habit of hyperbole that most Irishmen smile at their hysterics and threats of civil war as at sheer fudge.
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And the cow whose calf had been taken the day before also went into hysterics.
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It even raged today, concealed in obscure sufferings, dissimulated under symptoms of headaches and bronchitis, hysterics and gout.
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