Medical Term:
mass hysteria
Definition:
- spontaneous, en masse development of identical physical and/or emotional symptoms among a group of people, as seen in a classroom of schoolchildren;
- a socially contagious frenzy of irrational behavior in a group of people as a reaction to an event.
Synonym(s): epidemic hysteria, mass sociogenic illness
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