as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
the hysteria of the mother when she realized that she had lost her four-year-old son in the crowd
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Recent Examples of hysteria
The White House has cited legislation passed during the peak of the nation’s Cold War hysteria, like the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which expanded the government’s deportation powers.
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Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
The rumors stem from the discoveries of eight bodies across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts between March and April, fueling hysteria of a potential New England serial killer on Facebook, TikTok and other social media.
—Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The lynchings take place against a backdrop of hysteria created by the R.S.S. and its allies—a paranoid narrative of a vast majority, nearly a billion strong, being victimized by a much smaller minority.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But even the false report of relief appeared to snap the market out of its hysteria as stocks bounced back and forth until the closing bell.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
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Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
The rumors stem from the discoveries of eight bodies across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts between March and April, fueling hysteria of a potential New England serial killer on Facebook, TikTok and other social media.
—Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The lynchings take place against a backdrop of hysteria created by the R.S.S. and its allies—a paranoid narrative of a vast majority, nearly a billion strong, being victimized by a much smaller minority.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But even the false report of relief appeared to snap the market out of its hysteria as stocks bounced back and forth until the closing bell.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hysteria
Noun
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The dampened investor mood over AI — relative to the frenzy over the theme in 2024, at least — doesn’t reflect the priorities of companies, which are still spending on AI infrastructure and leveraging the technology to find new revenue streams.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
21 May 2025
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Today’s tariff frenzy is not really motivated by a concern for military threats, anyway.—
Ben Bayer,
Oc Register,
19 May 2025
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Aniston, now 56, played a girl trying to stop his murderous rampage after his gold coins were stolen.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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The probes said Byrd acted in self-defense and credited him with helping to protect lawmakers during the chaotic rampage by rioters including Babbitt, who was not armed.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
19 May 2025
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“Hysteria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hysteria. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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