Preposition: in

• press: You should not believe the hysteria in the press, the Internet is too good, to deprive your kids of access to it.

Converse of object

• whip: Challenge the hysteria whipped up by the press and politicians for political gain.

• generate: Mrs Brooker's husband David dismissed the hysteria generated by many tabloid newspapers over the latest incident.

• create: The Rosicrucians managed to create a hysteria about themselves, with many people attempting to search them out to expose or join them.

• cause: They caused mild hysteria by running through the crowds at the front of the stage.

• give: Given the current hysteria around religion, I don't think we can rely on everyone to be particularly philosophical about this stuff.

• increase: Unwelcome visits from the landlord only increase the nervous hysteria already developing in the small flat fueling dreadful consequences.

Preposition: against

• seeker: They have stood idly by whilst right wing media whip up racist hysteria against asylum seekers.

Adjective modifier

• anti-communist: However, there was a UFO mania in California in the period, probably associated the anti-communist hysteria of the time.

• tabloid: The frustrating thing for Doherty's fans is that beneath all the tabloid hysteria lies a genuine talent.

• mass: Hard Candy however, has a new lens for the mass hysteria.

• racist: They have stood idly by whilst right wing media whip up racist hysteria against asylum seekers.

• near: In the past few days there has been a note of near hysteria on the issue of asylum seekers.

• religious: There's nothing like religious hysteria for drumming up the ratings.

Noun used with modifier

• witch: James I, who believed the witch hysteria, wrote a book called ' Demonology ' about the supposed hidden world of wicked witches.

• media: Numbers opting for the combined jab has fallen Number 10 condemned what it called the " media hysteria " .

• mass: You've now spread unwarranted mass hysteria across the globe.

• medium: Despite the world media hysteria around him, Sharon has not done anything great or new f or that matter.

• conversion: Freud's diagnosis of conversion hysteria, for example, was common at the turn of the century.

• press: Press hysteria over each HIV-positive health care worker never lessened.