hysteria

noun4

1. •
   Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
2. •
   A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
3. •
   (informal) Synonym of conversion disorder.
4. •
   (no longer used, 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.