hysteroid
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hysteroid
First recorded in 1850–55; hyster(ia) + -oid
Example Sentences
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Under Sidney Lumet's flashbackward direction, the acting proves a match for Gore Vidal's hysteroid script.
From Time Magazine Archive
This diffused hysteroid condition may be illustrated by the results of a psychological investigation carried on in America by Miss Gertrude Stein among the ordinary male and female students of Harvard University and Radcliffe College.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
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