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HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
Synonyms:
hysteria; hysterical neurosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hysterical neurosis" is a kind of...):
neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis (a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction)
Meronyms (parts of "hysterical neurosis"):
mimesis (any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysterical neurosis"):
anxiety hysteria (a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis)
hysterocatalepsy (hysteria with cataleptic symptoms)
