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Hysteric

//hɪsˈtɛɹɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Hysterical; relating to hysteria.

    "Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A hysterical person.

    "“Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”"

  2. 2
    a person suffering from hysteria wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

Etymology 2

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

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