Breakdown and Reasoning

Breakdown

Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.

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Reasoning and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reasoning" instead a noun "Breakdown".

Nearby Words: break, breaking, breakup, breakout, breakage

Reasoning noun - The thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems.

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Breakdown and reasoning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Reasoning".

Nearby Words: reason, reasonable, reasoned, reasonably

emotional	emotional breakdown	emotional reasoning
good	good breakdown	good reasoning
full	full breakdown	full reasoning
similar	similar breakdown	similar reasoning
Other adjectives: initial, actual, real, little, tragic, main, moral, apparent, basic.

After an eloquent breakdown of his reasoning by Kevyn, Elf in Schlock Mercenary lampshades that comic's aversion of the trope.

Source: Talking Is a Free Action
Villainous Breakdown: Of a sort; the opium smuggler Yorick befriends and falls for on the way to Australia initially defends her trade by reasoning that, since humanity's doomed anyway, she might as well help the few survivors achieve some sort of release from the misery this knowledge brings.

Source: Comic Book / Y: The Last Man

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