Panic vs Hysterical - What's the difference?
panic | hysterical |
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.
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
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To feel overwhelming fear.
(botany) A plant of the genus Panicum .
Of, or arising from hysteria.
Having, or prone to having hysterics.
Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
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As adjectives the difference between panic and hysterical
is that panic is pandean while hysterical is of, or arising from hysteria.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, ----hysterical
English
Adjective
(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.}}
