HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hysterical neurosis mean? 

• HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS (noun)
  The noun HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS has 1 sense:

1. neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

  Familiarity information: HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hysteria; hysterical neurosis

Hypernyms ("hysterical neurosis" is a kind of...):

neurosis; neuroticism; psychoneurosis (a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction)

Meronyms (parts of "hysterical neurosis"):

mimesis (any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysterical neurosis"):

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

hysterocatalepsy (hysteria with cataleptic symptoms)