nervous exhaustion

1. 1.

   an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

   Synonymsnervous prostration

   Broadernervous breakdown

Questions about nervous exhaustion

What does nervous exhaustion mean?

nervous exhaustion means "an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work".

What is another word for nervous exhaustion?

Close synonyms include nervous prostration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nervous exhaustion a common word?

nervous exhaustion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.