1. craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria -- (state of violent mental agitation)
2. hysteria -- (excessive or uncontrollable fear)
3. hysteria, hysterical neurosis -- (neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions)
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In many cases it appears, curiously enough, as the disguise of a girl's or youth's puberty here and there even as the hysteria of an old maid, also as her last ambition. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche