Panic vs Hysteria - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to the god Pan.
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of ).
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Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic , bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
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*:With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic , stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
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To feel overwhelming fear.
(botany) A plant of the genus Panicum .
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 panic and hysteria
is that panic is overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals while hysteria is behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.As an adjective panic
is pertaining to the god Pan.As a verb panic
is to feel overwhelming fear.panic
English
(wikipedia panic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) panique, from (etyl) . is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.Alternative forms
* panick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Derived terms
* panic attack * panic button * panic disorder * panic roomVerb
Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) panicum.Noun
Synonyms
* panicgrass, ----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.