Hysterical vs Manic - What's the difference?
hysterical | manic |
Of, or arising from hysteria.
Having, or prone to having hysterics.
Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
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, chapter=2 (psychiatry) Suffering from mania; the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.
As adjectives the difference between hysterical and manic
is that hysterical is of, or arising from hysteria while manic is (psychiatry) suffering from mania; the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.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.}}