"mass hysteria" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1974 December, Lewis D. Polk, “Mass Hysteria in an Elementary School”, in Clinical Pediatrics, volume 13, number 12, →DOI, page 1013",
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        "The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously."
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        "(psychology) The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously."
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
          "word": "joukkohysteria"
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          "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
          "word": "tömeghisztéria"
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          "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
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          "word": "histeria colectiva"
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          "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
          "word": "masspsykos"
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          "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
      "word": "joukkohysteria"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sociopsychological phenomenon",
      "word": "tömeghisztéria"
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