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NEURASTHENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neurasthenia mean?
• NEURASTHENIA (noun)
The noun NEURASTHENIA has 1 sense:
1. nervous breakdown (not in technical use)
Familiarity information: NEURASTHENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nervous breakdown (not in technical use)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("neurasthenia" is a kind of...):
nervous breakdown (a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder)
Derivation:
neurasthenic (of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia)
Context examples
Neurasthenia and fibromyalgia may represent related disorders.
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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