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If someone is being histrionic, they put on a show with their feelings — big tears, big anger, big gestures — the way an actor might, even when the thing that happened is small. It is not a kind word; it says the feelings look performed, and that the person wants sympathy and attention. Doctors also use it in a careful way: histrionic personality names a pattern of always needing to be noticed, and using drama to get that notice. Though actually, in everyday talk people often just say dramatic or over the top; histrionic sounds like a book word, a bit cold. It comes from an old Latin word for an actor, not from history, and it is not the same as hysterical, which is a different and messy word about losing control.
做作的、誇張做戲的（精神醫學會說戲劇化／表演型；別和歇斯底里搞混）
組成From Latin histrio, an actor, plus -ic, of or about. By surface, histrion + -ic. It looks a little like history, but it is not from that word.
同家族的字
- histrionicsthe noun for the dramatic show itself, from this adjective plus -ics
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
histrionicadj/hɪstɹiːˈɒnɪk/
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Of or relating to actors or acting.
- After three years of constant applause, Miss [Elizabeth] O'Neill directed her steps towards the summit of histrionick exertion, being engaged for the season of 1814 at Covent Garden, where she made her first entrée as Juliet, on the 6th of October, being at once recognised as the first Hibernian actress, who had joined transcendant beauty with rare histrionick talent, since the time of Mrs. [Peg] Woffington.
- On Saturday, Miss F. H. Kelly played Belvidera for the first time, to a crowded House, and for her own benefit;—for her own benefit in every way, for the performance added a wreath to her histrionic laurels, and drew down the warmest testimonies of applause.
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Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
- [F]oppiſh airs / And hiſtrionic mumm'ry, that let down / The pulpit to the level of the ſtage, / Drops from the lips a diſregarded thing.
- [T]he mode and the expression of honour to literature in France has continued to this hour tainted with false and histrionic feeling, because originally it grew up from spurious roots, prospered unnaturally upon deep abuses in the system, and at this day (so far as it still lingers) memorialises the political bondage of the nation.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。