释义
n.
exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people
(尤指群体的)歇斯底里
Psychiatry a psychological disorder (not now regarded as a single definite condition) whose symptoms include conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization), selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behaviour. The term has a controversial history as it was formerly regarded as a disease specific to women.
【精神病学】 癔病。
词源
"early 19th cent.: from Latin hystericus (see HYSTERIC)."