neurasthenic

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Etymology

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From neurasthenia +‎ -ic or neur- +‎ asthenia +‎ -ic.

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neurasthenic (comparative more neurasthenic, superlative most neurasthenic)

  1. 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[1]:
      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.

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Noun

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neurasthenic (plural neurasthenics)

  1. (medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has neurasthenia.

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