different between fatigue vs neurasthenia

English

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fat?g?re (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??ti??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
2. (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
3. (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
   • 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399

     Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:fatigue

Derived terms

• fatigues (military work clothing)
• diversity fatigue
• donor fatigue
• fatigueless
• fatigue duty

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Verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
   • 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1

     The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

3. (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

Related terms

• fatigable
• indefatigable

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Further reading

• fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ti?/

Noun

fatigue f (plural fatigues)

1. fatigue, weariness

Derived terms

• tomber de fatigue

Related terms

• fatigué
• fatiguer

Further reading

• “fatigue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

fatigue

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
3. third-person singular imperative of fatigar

Spanish

Verb

fatigue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fatigar.

English

Etymology

From neur- +? asthenia, after Italian nevrastenia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nj????s??i?ni?/

Noun

neurasthenia (countable and uncountable, plural neurasthenias)

1. (psychiatry) An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.

   Synonym: anergasia

Derived terms

• neurasthenic
• neurasthenics

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