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breakdown vs nervous breakdown

nervous breakdown vs breakdown

breakdown and nervous breakdown both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
breakdown Yes No No No
nervous breakdown Yes No No No
As nouns, nervous breakdown is a hyponym of breakdown; that is, nervous breakdown is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than breakdown:
  • breakdown: a mental or physical breakdown
  • nervous breakdown: a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder
breakdown (noun) nervous breakdown (noun)
the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
a cessation of normal operation
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
a mental or physical breakdown
Difference between breakdown and nervous breakdown

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