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adjective characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; - Morris Fishbein
adjective marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion
originFrom hysteric + -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ῠ̔στέρᾱ (hŭstérā, “womb”).
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