Definition of "psychasthenia" [psychasthenia]

• A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use. (noun)

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• "By the term psychasthenia is understood a group of conditions in which the bodily symptoms, such as fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, etc., are either not so marked as in neurasthenia, or else are overshadowed by other, more distinctly mental symptoms."
• "The paranoia reading was low for someone with the prisoner's apparent intelligence, nor had he scored high in psychopathic deviation, schizophrenia, hypomania, depression, hysteria, masculinity/femininity, psychasthenia, or social introversion."
• "He knew that Kameon thought he was finicky to the point of psychasthenia."