0 very emotional and energetic, but not sincere or without real meaning:
1 (of behavior) showing a lot of emotion in order to persuade others or attract attention:
a histrionic performance
Fearful adults scored extremely low and significantly lower than preoccupied and dismissing adults on the histrionic and narcissistic dimensions.
Throughout this long histrionic scene, the hero wanders dejected, consciencestricken, isolated from all other humans.
This punishment is effected by letting the real world occupy her space and rendering her histrionic character homeless.
There were no individuals in this study who were diagnosed with dependent, schizotypal, histrionic, narcissistic, or borderline personality disorders.
Because we take the seer to be a fraud, we interpret her spiritual fit as merely histrionic.
Her personality, however, was highly emotional and at times histrionic.
Is this what provokes the histrionic outburst in the first violin in bar 105?
Protests against amalgamation became histrionic.