All breakdown synonyms

noun breakdown

• disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
• disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
• neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
• categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
• classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
• dissection — the act of dissecting.
• analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
• diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
• resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
• itemization — to state by items; give the particulars of; list the individual units or parts of: to itemize an account.
• basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
• crackup — a cracking up
• psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.