The Weekend Word: Hysteria
August 19, 2006 by William K. Wolfrum
Hysteria
Main Entry: hys·te·ria
Pronunciation: his-’ter-E-&, -’tir-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus
1: a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
2: behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess.
Now, let’s use it in a sentence:
Rush Limbaugh and people at places like Little Green Footballs are hysterical.
–WKW
[...] Tevez and Mascherano have now played five games at West Ham. Just a hunch, ut I have a feeling these two stellar players will have things straightened out with the Hammers if you give them a few more weeks. Then maybe Basile can find a reason to advise Leo Messi to leave Barcelona, or some other equally stupid and hysterical reason. [...]