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English
Etymology
From neurasthenia + -ic or neur- + asthenia + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
neurasthenic (comparative more neurasthenic, superlative most neurasthenic)
- Of or pertaining to neurasthenia; that is, tendencies of a person who has suffered a nervous breakdown.
They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence.
2020 October 3, Jessica Grose, “Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too”, in New York Times:Middle-class parents’ self-medication has long been recreationalized, even romanticized in America (so long as they were white); think of sitcom dads pouring a drink and sinking into the BarcaLounger after a long day with Bob in accounting, or neurasthenic moms popping pink capsules while the casserole browns.
Translations
pertaining to neurasthenia
Noun
neurasthenic (plural neurasthenics)
- (medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has neurasthenia.
Translations
person who has neurasthenia