Hypocrite vs Hysterical - What's the difference?
hypocrite | hysterical |
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
Of, or arising from hysteria.
Having, or prone to having hysterics.
Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
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As a noun hypocrite
is someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.As an adjective hysterical is
of, or arising from hysteria.hypocrite
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(en noun)See also
* two-faced * double standard ----hysterical
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(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}