nervosismen.
/ˌnəːvəʊˈsiːz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnərvoʊˈsiz(ə)m/ Medicine. rare. Now historical.
Nervous disorder; spec. neurasthenia.
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nerves1742
neurosis1783
neuropathy1857
nervosisme1884
neurose1886
neuroticism1900
1884 L. Brachet Aix-les-bains i. 94 Nervosism may be engendered by rheumatic..diathesis.
1898 J. C. Webster Dis. Women 135 Neurasthenia, also known by the terms ‘nervous exhaustion’, ‘nervosism’, ‘spinal irritation’, is a condition not yet clearly understood.
1909 A. Eulenburg in A. Church Dis. Nerv. Syst. 976 The symptom of increased irritability [in neurasthenia] was formerly given undue prominence by the use of the terms ‘nervous erethism,’ ‘nervosism’.
1995 S. Wessely in G. Berrios Hist. Clin. Psychiatry xx. 508 A few contemporaries took pains to elaborate the history of the disease before Beard, tracing its origins to nervosisme, neurospasm, spinal irritability and so on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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