neurasthenic tendencies. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But still more often one sees the appearance of increased fatigue on account of the patient's faulty notion; and to this the name neurasthenic should certainly not be given. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
It is true that certain manifestations of this, especially a false gastropathy, may lead to an increased fatigue, and to this the name neurasthenic might appropriately be given. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
"It must have been what Dr. Hewitt called neurasthenic inhibition," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose-Garden Husband] Reference
This picture may be further complicated by so-called neurasthenic, psychasthenic, hysterical or other reactions. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Cambridge is cool, and I'd love to live near Newbury Comics, but there's something kind of neurasthenic that flows through the Charles. From Wordnik.com. [found while packing] Reference
"No, she has no particular weakness. she is quite plump, and is only 'neurasthenic' the doctors say. From Wordnik.com. [Father Sergius] Reference
There is nothing neurasthenic about a well-padded person. From Wordnik.com. [Stylish Stouts] Reference
She finally becomes anemic and neurasthenic and a misanthrope. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
After only a week we were all neurasthenic with fatigue, except. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
The real-life David Gray was pious and neurasthenic, but a good sport. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.] Reference
That's the difference between us and those neurasthenic weenies in Durham. From Wordnik.com. [sniveling] Reference
A woman, therefore, cannot exercise her function of motherhood if she is a neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
“These hysterical, neurasthenic people are great egoists,” the doctor went on hotly. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Just the same, this mania for resurrecting defunct courtesans seems a trifle neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
In the face of its financial and political perplexities mankind was becoming neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
The over-worked business man, when he gets into the hands of the physician, is a neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
It was almost a badge of bi -- of intellectualism if you could claim that you were neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [Genuine Reality: A Life of William James] Reference
He was, Breiting thought, a neurasthenic, a man of enormous egotism, with a tendency toward megalomania. From Wordnik.com. ['Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'] Reference
We have mentioned the fact of his neurasthenic symptoms and how as a result of these he lost his position. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
I suppose it will end in his playing keeper to a half-crazed neurasthenic for the rest of his natural life. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Not knowing the constituents of the nerve-cells, they still attempt to prescribe for neurasthenic patients. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
To-day, without doubt, one can often distinguish from the outset the future general paralytic from the simple neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference
But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this neurasthenic hour, the spirit to go along for that wild ride. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Half Full] Reference
But 1920s New England was full of autodidactic Nietzsche wannabes, many of them also neurasthenic, over-coddled, and bankrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
A more objective work of fiction it would be hard to find — certainly in what used to be called “the neurasthenic North.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
The glasses are there to give you an idea of the scale, so you don't think they're just puny neurasthenic polka dots in extreme closeup. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Grail, check. Next stop, Atlantis! - A Dress A Day] Reference
Operations and sanatoria, health-resorts and specialists have not restored, and she lives, a neurasthenic mother of two neurotic children. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
A sudden reaction, common to the neurasthenic, swept over him, and his soul withdrew in anguish from the sickening horror of the discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
A nation that is overfed, under-exercised, and notably neurasthenic should neglect nothing that makes for prompt and reliable self-control. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference
From a quivering wretch she had become now a self - confident neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
What ailed this race that was so rapidly becoming neurasthenic as it flowered?. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
In the mood of reaction that the neurasthenic must meet, the trough of the wave, Isabelle doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
Aaron Burr was the victim of moral anæsthesia, and Jefferson was pseudo-epileptic and neurasthenic. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference
A few years later his mother died, but his sister, an ineffectual neurasthenic, remained on his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
He agreed enthusiastically with his expensive physicians that he was neurasthenic, psychasthenic and neurotic. From Wordnik.com. [No Clue A Mystery Story] Reference
The neurasthenic, once more recumbent, succeeded in voicing faint denial of having heard any noises, outside or inside. From Wordnik.com. [No Clue A Mystery Story] Reference
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