Synonyms for breaking point
break·ing point

Princeton's WordNet

1. breaking pointnoun

   (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial

2. breaking pointnoun

   the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks

Matched Categories

1. • Psychology
   • Stress

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1. Omar Mahmood:

   I expected backlash, but this is something else, last night I pretty much had a breakdown. I can’t take my final exams -- that has been postponed to next year. And I hate to be dramatic, but this is almost at a breaking point, where this has been going on for a month and I have not been able to focus on things.

2. Paul Rinaldi:

   Many controllers have reached the breaking point of exhaustion, stress and worry caused by this shutdown.

3. Bryan Koon:

   In 2017, when you had Harvey, Hurricane Irma and Maria, that stretched Federal Emergency Management Agency pretty thin, and some would say past the breaking point, but right now, you have a disaster going on in every state, every territory, every county and every city.

4. Jill Potts:

   We're going to reach a breaking point here.

5. Societe Generale strategist Kenneth Broux:

   The question that will come in the next 10 days is will the U.S. Treasury yield keep pushing above 1.5%, that was a sort of breaking point for broader risk assets when stops went off and the selloff started accelerating.