the neurasthenia of Descartes's Meditations

the third contestant is a neurasthenic

Martin quickly decided he liked her; she was darkly neurasthenic, but a fairly comfortable valetudinarian by now, despite her hot flushes and her migraines

the kind of grotesque portraits Nabokov can paint of family underlings like his neurasthenic governess Mademoiselle

But the situation does not wear well. It feels dated and neurasthenic

Socialists, liberals, Saint-Simonians, and Cold War Russians and Americans have always expressed the same neurasthenic yearning for the establishment of an era of peace and sterile abundance where there would no longer be anything to fear