Funny vs Hysteria - What's the difference?
funny | hysteria |
Amusing; humorous; comical.
Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
(humorous) A joke.
* 2014 , Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites (page 54)
(humorous) A comic strip.
* 2009 , R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky (page 343)
(British) A narrow boat for sculling.
Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
(medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
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As nouns the difference between funny and hysteria
is that funny is (humorous) a joke or funny can be (british) a narrow boat for sculling while hysteria is hysteria.As an adjective funny
is amusing; humorous; comical.funny
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)- When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny .
- The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
Synonyms
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Noun
(funnies)- Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
- His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies , and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.
Etymology 2
Perhaps a jocular use of (term). See above.Noun
(funnies)hysteria
English
(wikipedia hysteria)Noun
- The typical cases of hysteria cited by Freud thus involved a
moral conflict—a conflict about what the young women in
question wanted to do with themselves. Did they want to
prove that they were good daughters by taking care of their
sick fathers? Or did they want to become independent of their
parents, by having a family of their own, or in some other
way? I believe it was the tension between these conflicting
aspirations that was the crucial issue in these cases. The sexual
problem—say, of the daughter's incestuous cravings for her
father—was secondary (if that important); it was stimulated,
perhaps, by the interpersonal situation in which the one had to
attend to the other's body. Moreover, it was probably easier to
admit the sexual problem to consciousness and to worry about
it than to raise the ethical problem indicated.3 In the final
analysis, the latter is a vastly difficult problem in living. It
cannot be "solved" by any particular maneuver but requires
rather decision making about basic goals, and, having made
the decisions, dedicated efforts to attain them.
