mass hysteria in English

noun

collective hysteria, uncontrollable outburst of emotion exhibited by a mass of people, exaggerated emotional response affecting a group of persons

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1. I can't create mass hysteria in a city trying to rebuild.

2. The Hollinwell incident remains one of the prime examples of mass hysteria.

3. Was this all just a matter of runaway credulity, mass hysteria,(Sentencedict.com) or overwrought salesmanship?

4. Brunei (2010) - In April and May 2010, incidents of mass hysteria occurred at two all-girls secondary schools in Brunei.

5. (List incomplete) There are three primary theories about the Mattoon Mad Gasser incident: mass hysteria, industrial pollution, or an actual physical assailant.

6. In 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials.

7. After research by company physicians and experts from the US Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, it was concluded that the case was one of mass hysteria.

8. In 1959, his opinion was seconded by psychologist James P. Chaplin, and went on to form the basis for several subsequent studies of the phenomena of mass hysteria.

9. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria.

10. Mexico City (2007) - In 2007 near Chalco, a working-class suburb of Mexico City, mass hysteria resulted in a massive outbreak of unusual symptoms suffered by adolescent female students (600) at Children's Village School, a Catholic boarding-school.