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Word of the Day – Neurasthenia

By December 27, 2022Word of the Day

Neurasthenia (noun)

nu-res-thee-nee-a

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

First recorded in 1855–60; neur- + asthenia

Example sentences

“It caused her to have bouts of neurasthenia.”

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