Definitions for neurasthenia

neurasthenia neur·as·the·ni·a

Spelling: [noo r-uh s-thee-nee-uh, nyo
IPA: /ˌnʊər əsˈθi ni ə, ˌnyʊər-/

Neurasthenia is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1288 anagrams from letters in neurasthenia (aaeehinnrstu).

Definitions for neurasthenia

noun

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

Origin of neurasthenia

First recorded in 1855-60; neur- + asthenia

Examples for neurasthenia

The neurasthenia of the defendants he pursued in courts annoyed him only slightly.

Our time is certainly not worse off on the score of neurasthenia than its predecessors.

So she drifts into neurasthenia and has fits of crying and periods of melancholia.

This, I am told by an authority, was a case of neurasthenia, or nerve-paralysis.

The politer word, to be used chivalrously, was "neurasthenia."

This would seem to have been a case of hypnotism, rather than neurasthenia.

It is a perfect paradise for anyone who has not got neurasthenia.

Hazlitt's attraction to Rachel in the face of her neurasthenia did not confuse him.

neurasthenia is the "fatigue neurosis," as a leading expert terms it.

It was produced by every guest in the room whispering loudly, "neurasthenia!"

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