Hysterogenic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Producing hysteria.

    "He was delighted, for instance, to discover hysterogenic points, zones of hypersensitivity which, when fingered, provoked an attack; it confirmed his conviction of the reality of ‘latent hysteria’."

Example

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"He was delighted, for instance, to discover hysterogenic points, zones of hypersensitivity which, when fingered, provoked an attack; it confirmed his conviction of the reality of ‘latent hysteria’."

Etymology

From hystero- + -genic.

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