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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A condition of bodily strength, vigor, or vitality.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, strength; excessive force: opposed to asthenia or debility.

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  1. n. strength, vigour or vitality

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Greek sthenos, strength; see segh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “He assumed that the interaction between the excitability with which the body was endowed and the stimuli, external and internal, which it encountered during life determined health and the contrasting conditions of asthenia and sthenia.”

    HEALTH AND DISEASE

  • “Diseases occur according to increase or dimunition of the stimuli causing increased excitability, (sthenia) and weak stimuli diminished excitability (asthenia).”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

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