asthenia
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asthenia
- /æsˈθi.ni.ə/ US
- /æsˈθiː.nɪə/ UK
Rhymes with -iːniə
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthéneia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”), from ἀ- (a-, “not, un-”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”). By surface analysis, a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ia (“disease”).
noun asthenias · astheny
- Weakness; loss of strength. The savage gets a headache when his thought is forced to flow in a stream of representation. In the imbecile, in the idiot we find the same thing manifested. They can only think in concrete sensory terms. In mental asthenia which approaches the state of the higher stages of imbecility and also in se
- weakness You see nothing that might even remotely suggest life, beyond the solitary brave watering the ponies below you; but that is because the asthenia of civilization has left you half blind as well as half deaf, for where you see nothing and hear nothing Geronimo is conscious of life, movement and sound-
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Talk about this word "asthenia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/asthenia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. asthenia. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/asthenia "asthenia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/asthenia.Cite this
@misc{asthenia_2026,
title = {asthenia},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/asthenia},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
