Load
Stress
Stress noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.
Usage example: with a full-time job and her college courses, the young woman is under a lot of stress right now
Load and stress are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Load" instead the word "Stress" as a noun or a verb.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| emotional | emotional load | emotional stress |
| high | high load | high stress |
| initial | initial load | initial stress |
| heavy | heavy load | heavy stress |
| Other adjectives: massive, big, increased, great, new, major, mental, less, extra, immense, maximum. | ||
Common collocations
| way | load way | stress way |
Both words in one sentence
- In addition, the massive Ship-to-Ship Combat as the series was concluding put a load of stress on her, to the point where she had to put her Twitter account on private until the final chapter.
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Bring My Brown Pants is a biological response to stress designed to lighten a body's load/cause a distraction for a quick getaway.
Source: Emergency Cargo Dump -
The manual also states that if the load exceeds the maximum by a substantial amount, the Gear would also incur stress on its internal structure, which probably means more damage if the armor is penetrated.
Source: Critical Encumbrance Failure
Cite this Source
Stress and Load. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/load/stress
Load & Stress. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/load/stress>.
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