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    [Adjective]  | "his*tri*on*ic" | \ ˌhi-strē-ˈä-nik \


    1: deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical

    2: of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater


    Origin: 1648 ;

     Late Latin histrionicus, from Latin histrion-, histrio actor;

    [Adjective]  | "histrionic" 


    1: given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting;


      * e.g., " ... a penchant for dish throwing, door slamming, and other histrionic displays of temper "





    2: having the general quality or effect of a stage performance;


      * e.g., " ... we never tired of his histrionic reenactment of how he found money under the floorboards of a house he was renovating "





     [ "histrionic" ]

    1: excessively dramatic, attention loving

      * e.g.,  ... "She'll do anything for attention." 


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    2: someone with Histrionic Personality Disorder fits five or more of the following:

      * e.g.,  ... "Yeah, she's histrionic like that." 


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    3:  is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention


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    4:  interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior


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    5:  displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions


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    6:  consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self


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    7:  has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail


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    8:  shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion


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    9:  is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances


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    10:  considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are

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    1: Can be used to describe 70% of the teen population and also the middle to high class parts of society.

      * e.g.,  ... 70% of everyone at school is histrionic. 

     [ "Histrionics" ]

    1: 1 An awesome song and album from the band, "The Higher"

      * e.g.,  ... "One check, one love, How many times can we watch him crumble? Histrionics repeats itself all over again" - The Higher 


     [ "Histrionics" ]

    2: 2 An exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention

     [ "Histrionic" ]

    1: Any psychological problem experienced by a physically attractive woman.

      * e.g.,  ... "Dude Sarah is still mad at me for beating her up after like 10 days. She knows I have ADHD, a recognized medical disorder. She's being super histrionic right now." 

     [ "histrionic personality" ]

    1: Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality. Someone with histrionic personality disorder wants to be the center of attention in any group of people, and feel uncomfortable when they are not.While often lively, interesting and sometimes dramatic, they have difficulty when people aren’t focused exclusively on them. People with this disorder may be perceived as being shallow, and may engage in sexually seductive or provocative behavior to draw attention to themselves.

      * e.g.,  ... Veronica has a history of histrionic personality disorder since she likes to state people are wanting to have am affair with her. She also has a history of being a pathological liar. 

     [ "Macho-histrionics" ]

    1: The chaotic and aggressive dysregulation that occurs when some adult males are asked to comply with a very simple mask-wearing policy.

      * e.g.,  ... "Some meat-head wigged out at the bank when they asked him to wear a mask; I'm so sick of their macho-histrionics." 

     [ "American Histrionic EX" ]

    1: An American citizen who continuoualy displays at least 5 histrionic behaviors and is also the ex of you or one of your friends.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey bro who is that girl that dresses so slutty, and screams about spilled milked, and blames everybody else for her own incompetence and always acts like a victim when you're around but always comes onto me to fuck whenever you're not around? Yeah bro, I can't get rid of her... that's my american histrionic ex, not to be confused with my Mexican histrionic ex, I just had her deported. 

     [ "histrionic personality disorder" ]

    1: his-tree-on-ik · A personality disorder chiefly characterized by an insatiable and excessive desire to seek attention from others. They come off as highly sociable and extroverted and present themselves in an overly dramatic flirtatious manner. They become easily upset and resentful when they're not the center of attention.

      * e.g.,  ... Brad: Yo dude that hot chick over there is signalling me! 

     [ "Histrionic mothers" ]

    1: the manifestations of daughters who grow up with narcissistic histrionic mothers in enmeshed relationships.

      * e.g.,  ... Histrionic mothers. The individual with the learning disability can have difficulty understanding the act was abuse. And instead they often associate the stimulation and feeling of sex as well as the praise from the caretaker as gratifying because these are the only times the caretaker will ever show any positive emotions towards the victim. This will in return cause the intellectually disabled person to wish for more praise after the overseer is no longer cheerful anymore from the last achievement. And now the cycle will repeat in the form of rewarding behavior for every sexual conquest. If you imagine giving a dog a snack for waiting until the appropriate time to urinate outside. Now vision giving the dog a snack to potty on the kitchen floor during dinner. This is the outcome of a borderline mentally disabled daughter with enmeshed mother. The daughter is never able to excel mentally due to her slight disability and the treatment of the parent. It will be a regular routine to defecate on the kitchen floor to make their abuser proud even into adulthood. When a child without any learning disability will have a great will and would be successful to learn how to and when and where to properly use the restroom, the slight learning disability from the other individual would not even allow her to think about the better choice. This is the results of a histrionic mother ,and a borderline intellectually disabled child. 


     [ "Histrionic mothers" ]

    2: It can be almost impossible task for the psychiatrist to help a woman who is borderline intellectually disabled, after long term sexual abuse during childhood if it happened frequently by multiple abusers. This patient maybe not be capable or have any willpower to understand how therapy could help. And this could manifest into a life of short lived relationships and a infinite number of sex partners.

      * e.g.,  ... Histrionic mother 

     [ "histrionize" ]

    1: When someone histrionizes, they seek out attention in a do-or-die way, as if being without external attention will lead to their own death. Histrionizing behaviour is usually found in those with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) or in women who've grown up without an effective masculine figure. Histrionizing is often accompanied by perceptions that relationships are closer than they are.

      * e.g.,  ... she histrionized me 

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