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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
histrionics
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Jett's histrionics, I didn't know how much more I could take.
▪ He accused me of histrionics and dubbed me Sarah Bernhardt, after the crown princess of stage and silent movie melodrama.
▪ Mr Mubarak's cautiousness used to be welcomed as an antidote to the histrionics of Nasser and Sadat.
▪ Sanchez's touchline histrionics evoked memories of some of Martin O'Neill's maddest moments on the same turf.
▪ That act, after all the histrionics from his team-mates in this series, sparked off an ugly reaction.
▪ The most ostentatious team in professional sports made the decision to play football and let the histrionics take care of themselves.
▪ Their glances only drove him to greater histrionics.
▪ Turning her histrionics down gives us a chance to watch the many wondrous things she can do well.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
histrionics

histrionics \his`tri*on"ics\, n.

  1. The histrionic art; stageplaying; acting.

  2. Insincere, exaggeratedly emotional or overly dramatical speech or behavior performed to create an impression rather than as an expression of true feeling; feigned emotion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
histrionics

"theatrics, pretense," 1864, from histrionic; also see -ics.

Wiktionary
histrionics

n. exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics.

WordNet
histrionics

  1. n. a performance of play [syn: theatrical performance, theatrical, representation]

  2. a deliberate display of emotion for effect

Wikipedia
Histrionics (album)

Histrionics is the debut full-length studio album by the American pop rock band The Higher, released on May 3, 2005. The album cover is a tribute for Pearl Jam's Vitalogy.

Usage examples of "histrionics".

Thawed enough to relax stiff ideals and his death grip on harebrained histrionics, he stood down, his stout hand released from his sword grip.

At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.

Poor Damia, she said in a self-derisive tone, ever since that encounter with that dreadful mind-alien, she's been nothing but a T-, T T- Damia tried out the different grades for size and then discarded them all, along with her histrionics.