psychasthenia
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of psychasthenia
From New Latin, dating back to 1905–10; see origin at psych-, asthenia
Example Sentences
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Yet the fact that the patient himself really does not will the effect at which he is aiming separates, mostly without difficulty, the diagnosis of psychasthenia from that of insanity.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
Most authors admit a constitutional disposition to scrupulosity, just as there is one to its quasi-genus, psychasthenia.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
Such occur conspicuously in the psychopathological syndrome so completely described by Janet under the term psychasthenia.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
A case of psychasthenia in a child aged two years, due to coffee drinking.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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