crying spell
Bout of sobbing
A crying spell is a period of uncontrollable or prolonged weeping, often without a clear trigger.
The term appears frequently in medical and psychological contexts, where crying spells may indicate depression, hormonal changes, or emotional exhaustion: She's been having crying spells since starting the new medication.
Unlike ordinary crying, a spell suggests something that comes over you unbidden.
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- burst into tearsCry suddenly, uncontrollably
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- ugly cryIntense, unflattering sobbing
breakdown · mental breakdown · meltdown · outburst · sniffling · wailing · blubbering · emotional · overwhelmed · grief · sadness · despair · heaving · tissues · puffy · red-eyed · cathartic · emotional release
- emotional outburstsmeltdown, outburst, tantrum, temper tantrum, angry outburst
- breakdownsbreakdown, nervous breakdown, mental breakdown, failure, emotional collapse
- mental crisesnervous breakdown, mental breakdown, mental collapse, mental break, emotional collapse