| Main Entry: | breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous collapse |
Synonyms: |
basket case, crackup, disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, psychasthenia |
Antonyms: |
mental health |
| Main Entry: | nerves |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anxiety |
Synonyms: |
fretfulness, hysteria, imbalance, irritation, nervousness, neurasthenia, sleeplessness, strain, stress, tenseness, tension |
Antonyms: |
calm, coolness |
| Main Entry: | nervous breakdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental exhaustion |
Synonyms: |
burnout, burnout, clinical depression, collapse, crackup, crackup, depression, emotional collapse, mental collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, shattered nerves |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
Synonyms: |
agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
Antonyms: |
calm, calmness, collectedness |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
Antonyms: |
adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | jitters |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous restlessness |
Synonyms: |
agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidget, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jump, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, shiver, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, tremble, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |