Hysteria is a colloquial term for ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion.
Hysteria or Histeria may also refer to:
Science Biology and medicine Female hysteria, a once common diagnosis for women
Music Hysteria (The Human League album), a 1984 album Hysteria (Def Leppard album), a 1987 album "Hysteria" (Def Leppard song), a 1987 song "Hysteria" (Muse song), a 2003 song "Hysteria" (Anna Abreu song), a 2011 song Hysteria (Katharine McPhee album), a 2015 album Hysteria, a 2020 album by Chihiro Onitsuka "Hysteria", a 1999 song by Le Knight Club from record label Crydamoure "Hysteria", a 2021 song by Poppy from Flux (Poppy album) "Hysteria", a 2026 song by Bebe Rexha from Dirty Blonde
Film and television Hysteria (1965 film), a British film directed by Freddie Francis Hysteria (1997 film), a British-Canadian film directed by Rene Daalder Hysteria (2011 film), a British film directed by Tanya Wexler Hysteria!, an American comedy horror-thriller series Hysteria (2025 film), a German film directed by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Other uses Hysteria (periodical), a British feminist publication Hysteria (play), by Terry Johnson, 1993 Hysteria (video game), 1987 video game developed by Special FX Software Hysteria Reinw., a synonym of Corymborkis, an orchid genus Hysteria, a fictional organism in the TV program Extraterrestrial Hysteria, a comedy show series for the Terrence Higgins Trust
See also
Histeria (disambiguation) Hysteresis, the dependence of the state of a system on its history Hysteron proteron, a rhetorical device Four discourses, a concept by Jacques Lacan, including "Hysteric" Mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria Studies on Hysteria, an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud