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Comment by tadfisher

4 hours ago

Highly suggest adding "hysterical" to your internal vocabulary filter.

Not OP. But respectfully disagree. Reads appropriate to me.

"Related to or marked by Hysteria" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysterical

Hysteria being "behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess" which seems to be exactly what OP was trying to say.

  • The origin of the word is a bit darker than its meaning, unfortunately. It comes from the Greek word for Uterus. You can kinda fill in the blanks from there as to how it came to its modern meaning.

    • > The origin of the word is a bit darker than its meaning, unfortunately.

      We should all just stop speaking. The origin of too many words is problematic. Just think of how many were coined by racists and misogynists!

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    • Let's add dumb, lame, sinister, grandfathered in while we're at it if we're litigating roots nobody thinks about on a day-to-day basis...