noun
- Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
noun
- an obsolete technical term for a neurosis characterized by extreme lassitude and inability to cope with any but the most trivial tasks
n.“nervous exhaustion,” 1854, medical Latin, from neur- (form of neuro- before a vowel) + asthenia “weakness” (see asthenia). Related: Neurasthenic. n.
- A complex of symptoms characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains.