NERVOUS EXHAUSTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous exhaustion mean? 

• NERVOUS EXHAUSTION (noun)
  The noun NERVOUS EXHAUSTION has 1 sense:

1. an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

  Familiarity information: NERVOUS EXHAUSTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVOUS EXHAUSTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

nervous exhaustion; nervous prostration

Hypernyms ("nervous exhaustion" is a kind of...):

nervous breakdown (a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder)

 Context examples 

In the cab was a woman, half-collapsed from nervous exhaustion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)