hysteric

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But to her credit, Ms. Coon never turns the character into a wild-eyed hysteric or a manipulated figure of pure pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

As Freeman pulled into second base, a hysteric crowd of 52,995 rose to its feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

"He was clearly a sort of hysteric," he says.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2018

They must weigh, at every step, the likelihood of being dismissed, as Ford is now being dismissed, as a liar and a hysteric.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2018

For much as the hysteric stands in comparison to us ordinary men, so perhaps do we ordinary men stand in comparison with a not impossible ideal of faculty and of self-control.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)