Definitions For Hysteria

noun

  • Excessive or uncontrollable fear
  • State of violent mental agitation
  • Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
  • A state in which your emotions (such as fear) are so strong that you behave in an uncontrolled way
  • A situation in which many people behave or react in an extreme or uncontrolled way because of fear, anger, etc.

Is Hysteria a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
12

The word Hysteria is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Hysteria in a Sentence

  • A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.
  • Wartime hysteria led to many unfair accusations of treachery.
  • The spreading of the disease caused mass hysteria in the village.

Synonyms for Hysteria

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