NERVOUS STRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous strain mean? 

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

1. (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVOUS STRAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mental strain; nervous strain; strain

Context example:

the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him

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

nerves; nervousness (an uneasy psychological state)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nervous strain"):

stress; tenseness; tension ((psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense)

 Context examples 

He was a thin, gruff, bespectacled man of middle age, his cheeks haggard, and his hands twitching from the nervous strain to which he had been subjected.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)