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How to pronounce “hysteria”

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Pronunciation guide for hysteria

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of hysteria with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Razor-Thin Line Between Contagion and Connectionotherwise known as mass hysteria.
Definition summary: Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.

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The Razor-Thin Line Between Contagion and Connection

otherwise known as mass hysteria.

[Noun]
Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
(medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
(informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
(psychiatry, until early 20th century, now historical) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex.

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