neurasthenia
noo ras thee nee uh
- n nervous breakdown (not in technical use)
- Philip, hero of The Strange River, is a timid, rich, unambitious young man whose growing neurasthenia takes the uninteresting form of preoccupation with the petty details of his .
- ADAM'S RIB An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and .
- His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen.