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Meltdown vs Conniption - What's the difference?

meltdown | conniption |

As nouns the difference between meltdown and conniption

is that meltdown is severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping while conniption is a fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.

meltdown

English

(wikipedia meltdown)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
    • Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. [http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html]
  • A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
  • * 2001 , James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling'' (in ''The Daily Star )
    • Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.
    Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262]
  • (figuratively) A tantrum.

    • Derived terms

    * nuclear meltdown * market meltdown * techno-meltdown

    See also

    * China syndrome

    conniption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
    • When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption .
    ...threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street (Businessweek Oct.20, 2008)
  • A fit of laughing; convulsion.
    • The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.