hysterogenyn.
/ˌhɪstəˈrɒdʒᵻni/, U.S. /ˌhɪstəˈrɑdʒəni/ The production of hysteria.
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hysterogeny1887
1887 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1886–7 4 127 (note) I must adopt from the French the word..hysterogeny for the production of hysterical states.
1981 Georgia Rev. 35 736 No, the antiscientific people were never our genuine writers, nor genuine intelligences of any kind; they were our zealots, nuts, victims of intellectual hysterogeny.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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