When the populace's fear of a snowstorm creates traffic jams and general panic way before any flakes even fall. Usually turns out to be a totally disproportionate response to a minor snowstorm.
Everyone is fleeing the office thanks to snow hysteria...but it isn't supposed to start snowing until 9 PM.
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an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc
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Psychoanalysis . a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion.
When Angelina Jolie found out that Brad Pitt cheated on her with a flight attendant, she went into a state of complete hysteria, while listening to Hysteria by Muse and went completely fuck your own ass crazy.
The result of Social Justice Warriors defining everythingsexual men do as rape. It devalues the term, and can cause those who have actually suffered to be lumped in with the attention seeking ideologues. That and when a man is accused of rape, he is guilty be default with no chance to explain himself of prove innocence.
This rape hysteria is getting out of hand, I was called a rapist just for saying that girl looked hot
Cletus the HysteriCon heard about a baker being forced to make a cake for a gay wedding and was so enraged that he camped outside the bakery with a gun; wrote a letter to the editor; and upvoted some nazi posts on Reddit.
To come face to face with an epiphany moment that results in an instantaneous burst of uncontrollable laughter for a prolonged period of time.
I suppressed the thought of being pregnant while getting through final exams followed by a trip to the pharmacy. As soon as I saw the result of my pregnancy test I broke out into hysterical laughter.