NOUN
- a person suffering a nervous breakdown
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia
neurasthenic tendencies
How To Use neurasthenic In A Sentence
- It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
- People who are "born tired," who are neurasthenic and easily fatigued and "ached," are probably in a chronic state of self-poisoning due to some defect in their body-chemistry. Preventable Diseases
- neurasthenic tendencies
- With this method I cure some people who were suffering by neurasthenic, insomnia and tummy bug.
- From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- This kind of patient often has neurasthenic all symptom, if insomnious companion has the head, unwell, attention cannot be centered, memory difference, easy exhaustion, jelly.
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- The selves jostle for prominence in these pages: the mono-browed Neanderthal shoulders aside axe-wielding Homo sapiens; the neurasthenic intellectual trips up the bedaubed aborigine. Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- It's hard to envision neurasthenic pulling or other activity, but I don't grok Hegelian infinitesimals either.