Hysteria and Scare

Hysteria

Hysteria noun - A state of wildly excited activity or emotion.

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Scare and hysteria are semantically related In some cases you can use "Scare" instead a noun "Hysteria".

Scare noun - The emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger.

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Hysteria and scare are semantically related in panic topic. Sometimes you can use "Hysteria" instead a noun "Scare".

Nearby Words: scar, scared, scary, scaring

good	good hysteria	good scare
brief	brief hysteria	brief scare
public	public hysteria	public scare
genuine	genuine hysteria	genuine scare
Other adjectives: plain, real, massive, serious, bad, environmental.

Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein deliberately fed the hysteria in a series of essays (see his collection "Expanded Universe") meant to scare people badly enough to get nukes banned.

Source: Cyclic National Fascination
This was an allegory for the Red Scare, warning how communism is a danger, but the self-destructive anti-communist hysteria among the American people at the time was actually the best way for the real communists to win.

Source: Values Resonance
As The Fifties wore on, the entertainment industry struck back against the Red Scare; the 1956 Bette Davis film Storm Center was one of the first to directly target anti-Communist hysteria, and in 1957, radio host John Henry Faulk sued AWARE for ruining his career (winning his case in 1962).

Source: Useful Notes / Fall of the Studio System

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