neurasthenia
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- neurasthenic adjective
- neurasthenically adverb
Etymology
Origin of neurasthenia
Example Sentences
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One of the book’s through-lines is the concept of “neurasthenia,” an old-fashioned term describing a collection of symptoms including headaches, listlessness and low-grade depression.
From Washington Post
Idleness in the poor became neurasthenia in the rich.
From Washington Post
As a child, Jacob was treated for neurasthenia by Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s mentor.
From Washington Post
The latter, which made use of ultraviolet irradiation, was considered an effective treatment for hysteria, epilepsy, neurasthenia, migraine, melancholia, mania, insomnia, and a wide variety of other psychiatric, neurological, and general medical disorders.
From Salon
During the eighteen-sixties, doctors in America diagnosed an illness called “neurasthenia,” which was characterized by tiredness, headaches, and insomnia, and was thought to be brought on by the anxieties of urbanization.
From The New Yorker
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