anxiety hysteria

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anxiety hysteria - a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis

hysterical neurosis, hysteria - neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

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The authors have organized the main body of their text in thirteen chapters devoted to rumor and gossip, fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, stampedes and panics, anxiety hysteria, classical mass hysteria, and a wide variety of other related subjects.

A Colorful History of Popular Delusions

Hyperaesthesia for auditory sensations, parious paraesthesias" and paroxysms) in addition to those of anxiety hysteria ("May lead of psychic impotence & sexual anaesthesia" TS10971_8, 21).