nervous strain

Questions about nervous strain

What is another word for nervous strain?

It depends which nervous strain you mean. In the sense “(psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress”, the synonyms are strain, mental strain. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nervous strain?

WordNet records no antonym for nervous strain. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nervous strain come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nervous strain

• Full entry for nervous strainAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nervous strainWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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