Neurasthenia

Definition: Neurasthenia

Neurasthenia

Noun

1. Nervous breakdown (not in technical use).

Date "neurasthenia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Etymology: Neurasthenia \Neu*ras`the*ni"a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression nerve weakness.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Neurasthenia

Domain	Definitions
Health	A mental disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and concomitant physiologic symptoms. (references)
Medicine	An ill-defined condition, commonly accompanying or following depression, characterized by vague functional fatigue. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: Neurasthenia

English words defined with "neurasthenia": neurasthenic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Neurasthenia

Domain	Title
Books	Before Freud: Neurasthenia and the American Medical Community, 1870-1910 (reference) Problems of Psychiatry in General Practice: Neurasthenia Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Advances in Treatment of Depression Teaching and Training of (reference) Sexual Neurasthenia, Its Hygiene, Causes and Symptoms and Treatment With a Chapter on Diet for the Nervous (Medicine and Society in America Ser) (reference) Social Origins of Distress & Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, & Pain in Modern China (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Neurasthenia

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A number of illnesses have been described that have a similar spectrum of symptoms to CFS. These include fibromyalgia syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, neurasthenia, multiple chemical sensitivities, and chronic mononucleosis. (references)
		Any condition defined primarily by symptoms that cannot be confirmed by diagnostic laboratory tests, including fibromyalgia, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, nonpsychotic or melancholic depression, neurasthenia, and multiple chemical sensitivity disorder. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Neurasthenia

"Neurasthenia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neurasthenia" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neurasthenia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
neurasthenia	23
neurasthenia treatment	4
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Modern Translations: Neurasthenia

Language		Translations for "neurasthenia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nevrasteni, krizë nervash. (various references)

Arabic		‏النوراستينيا النهك العصبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		неврастения. (various references)

Czech		neurastenie. (various references)

Danish		neurastheni, nervesvækkelse, nervøsitet (nervosism, nervousness). (various references)

Dutch		neurasthenie, neurasthenia (neurocirculatory asthenia), zenuwzwakte. (various references)

Finnish		heikkohermoisuus. (various references)

French		neurasthénie. (various references)

German		neurasthenie (neurocirculatory asthenia). (various references)

Greek		νευρασθένεια (neurocirculatory asthenia). (various references)

Hungarian		ideggyengeség (neurotic). (various references)

Italian		nevrastenia, neurastenia (neurocirculatory asthenia). (various references)

Manx		nearasthene. (various references)

Pig Latin		eurasthenianay

Portuguese		nevrálgico, neurastenia (dumpy, hip, mullock, neurasthenic, neurocirculatory asthenia). (various references)

Romanian		neurastenie (nervous debility, nervous prostration). (various references)

Russian		неврастения. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neurastenija. (various references)

Spanish		neurastenia. (various references)

Swedish		neurasteni. (various references)

Thai		อาการอ่อนเพลีย. (various references)

Turkish		nevrasteni (nervous breakdown, nervous prostration), sinir zayıflığı. (various references)

Ukranian		неврастенія. (various references)

Welsh		nerfwst. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Neurasthenia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neurasthenia": neurasthenias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Neurasthenia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nuerasthenia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Neurasthenia"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "neurasthenia" (pronounced nuh'rasthē"nēu)
4	-ē" n ē u	Eugenia, schizophrenia, vaccinia, Xenia.
3	-n ē u	apnea, cornea, gonia, hernia, insignia, insomnia, mania, megalomania, millennia, petunia, pollinia, Sinfonia, Zinnia.
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Anagrams: Neurasthenia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: eutherians.
	-3 letters: estuarine, eutherian, herniates, rhatanies, saturnine, tanneries, urethanes.
	-4 letters: aneurins, anserine, antisera, arenites, arethusa, arsenate, arsenite, asthenia, enshrine, entrains, esurient, hairnets, hastener, haunters, heartens, hearties, herniate, hetaeras, hetairas, inearths, inherent, insurant, intenser, internes, nauseant, nauseate, neurines, ratanies, resinate, retinues, reunites, ruinates, runniest, sauterne, seatrain, serenata, stearine, taurines, thesauri, thinners, trainees, unearths, uneasier, uranites, urethane, urethans, urinates.
	-5 letters: aerates, aeriest, aethers, anestri, aneurin, annates, anthers, antiars, antsier, anurans, anurias, arenite, aristae, artisan, asteria, atresia, aunties, aureate, austere, earnest, earthen, eastern, ensnare, entasia, enthuse, entires, entrain, entries, etesian, ethanes, hairnet, hastier, haunter, hearten, heaters, heister, henries, herniae, hernias, hetaera, hetaira, hinters, hirsute, hunters, inanest, inearth, inheres, insaner, insnare, intense, interne, interns, inturns, nastier, natures, nearest, neatens, neither, neurine, neuters, nutrias, nutsier, ratines, reheats, rennase, rennets, reshine, retains, retinae, retinas, retines, retinue, retsina, retunes, reunite, ruinate, runtish, saunter, saurian, seriate, shaitan, sheitan, shunner, shunter, sinuate, stainer, stanine, stearin, sthenia, stunner, sunnier, taeniae, taenias, tanners, tannish, tarnish, taurine, tenners, tennies, tenures, theines, thenars, therein, thinner, tinners, trainee, trienes, triunes, tsarina, tunnies, tureens, unearth, uneaten, unhairs, uniters, unrisen, uranias, uranite, urethan, urinate, uterine.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: neurasthenias.
	+4 letters: neurasthenically, uncharitableness.
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