Word of the day: neurasthenia

The word of the day is neurasthenia:

 

1. Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neurasthenia)

"'His normally taciturn character,' a young headquarters guard later remembered, 'had become dark, crabbed, irascible, somewhat neurasthenic, to the point that even the men of his escort feared him when he called them.'"

 - John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution