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Neurasthenia is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Neurasthenia in a sentence

Neurasthenia meaning

An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.

Synonyms of Neurasthenia

nervous breakdown

Related words

Other words often associated with Neurasthenia or its synonyms:

breakdown

Using Neurasthenia

  • The main meaning on this page is: An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.
  • Useful related words include: nervous breakdown.

Context around Neurasthenia

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

obliged 1×

Sentence patterns with Neurasthenia

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

p 54 neurasthenia obliged him 1× shock or neurasthenia as it 1× suffering from neurasthenia or shell 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

graves also suffered 1× quoted in morrison 1× soon afterwards owen 1×

Common sentence endings:

after the premiere 1× edinburgh for treatment 1× of the notion 1×

Words around Neurasthenia

Just before it in the word index:

neuralizer 2 neuralink 41 neuralgic 2 neuralgia 6 neural 445 neuqua 6

Just after it in the word index:

neurath 28 neurauter 8 neuren 2 neurips 3 neurite 5 neuritis 12

Similar in corpus frequency:

aabc 5 aacr 5 aacsb 5 aadar 5 aadk 5 aadvantage 5

Corpus analysis for Neurasthenia

  • In this selection, "neurasthenia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, obliged stand out and add context to how "neurasthenia" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include p 54 neurasthenia obliged him and shock or neurasthenia as it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "neurasthenia" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with neurasthenia

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Quoted in Morrison, p. 54 neurasthenia obliged him to rest for several months after the premiere. (16 words)

Soon afterwards, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. (22 words)

Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it: I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. (34 words)

Longer example sentences

Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it: I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. (34 words)

Soon afterwards, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. (22 words)

Quoted in Morrison, p. 54 neurasthenia obliged him to rest for several months after the premiere. (16 words)

Example sentences (3)

Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it: I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion.

Quoted in Morrison, p. 54 neurasthenia obliged him to rest for several months after the premiere.

Soon afterwards, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "neurasthenia" in a sentence?
An example: "Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it: I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "neurasthenia" from authentic English texts.
What does "neurasthenia" mean?
Neurasthenia means: An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.
What are synonyms of "neurasthenia"?
Common synonyms of "neurasthenia" include: nervous breakdown.
How many example sentences with "neurasthenia" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "neurasthenia", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.