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Pronunciation:  hi'sterikul

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"
  2. [adj]  characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia"
 
 Synonyms: agitated, hysteric, neurotic, psychoneurotic
 

 

 

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