mass hysteria

1. 1.

   a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation

   Synonymsepidemic hysertia

   Broadercraze

Questions about mass hysteria

What does mass hysteria mean?

mass hysteria means "a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation".

What is another word for mass hysteria?

Close synonyms include epidemic hysertia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mass hysteria a common word?

mass hysteria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.