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neurasthenia

American  
[noor-uhs-thee-nee-uh, nyoor-] / ˌnʊər əsˈθi ni ə, ˌnyʊər- /

noun

  1. Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.


neurasthenia British  
/ ˌnjʊərəsˈθɛnɪk, ˌnjʊərəsˈθiːnɪə /

noun

  1. an obsolete technical term for a neurosis characterized by extreme lassitude and inability to cope with any but the most trivial tasks

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Origin of neurasthenia

First recorded in 1855–60; neur- + asthenia

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Among such groups of ailments are: Neurasthenia or nervous prostration.

From Time Magazine Archive

His work on Neurasthenia did not command general approbation, because it made almost everything a sign of nervous exhaustion.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

Neurasthenia became one of the most popular of diagnoses, and remains so today.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

Beard's Neurasthenia leaped at once into the limelight.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

The wave has its feathered crest, and so had I; wine has its fire, and so had I. Neurasthenia, the ape of all the diseases, pursues me.

From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula

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