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Psychasthenia

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Noun
  1. 1
    A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. countable, dated, uncountable

Etymology

From psych- + asthenia. By surface analysis, psych- (“soul, mind”) + a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ia (“disease”).

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