OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 52209

mass hysteria

Meanings (ES + gloss)
histeria colectiva
The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously.
However, these make no mention of mass hysteria or give any suggestion that hysteria may affect multiple individuals at one time in a special situation.
The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California.
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