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mass hysteria en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously.
    • The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California. 1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:
    • However, these make no mention of mass hysteria or give any suggestion that hysteria may affect multiple individuals at one time in a special situation. 1974 December, Lewis D. Polk, “Mass Hysteria in an Elementary School”, in Clinical Pediatrics, volume 13, number 12, →DOI, page 1013:

Translations (6)

th อุปาทานหมู่ (sociopsychological phenomenon) · sv masspsykos (sociopsychological phenomenon) · sv masshysteri (sociopsychological phenomenon) · es histeria colectiva (sociopsychological phenomenon) · fi joukkohysteria (sociopsychological phenomenon) · hu tömeghisztéria (sociopsychological phenomenon)