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語源

From histrionic +‎ -ics, see histrionic.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /hɪstɹiˈɒnɪks/
• (米国発音) enPR: hĭs-trē-änʹĭks, IPA: /hɪstɹiˈɑnɪks/
• 韻: -ɒnɪks

名詞

histrionics pl (plural only)

1. Exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics.

   I’m tired of Mary’s histrionics.

   • 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 June 2009:

     Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.

使用する際の注意点

• Do not confuse histrionics with hysterics.

同意語

• (exaggerated behaviour): drama, melodrama, melodramatics

下位語

• testrionics

派生語

• herstrionics

参考

• histrionic

アナグラム

• trichinosis