What's the difference between enervation and enfeeblement?
Enervation
Definition:
(n.) The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
(n.) The state of being weakened; effeminacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In light of the appearance of cyclic enervative episodes, this study suggests limitations to primate models of panic disorder utilizing oral yohimbine.
(2) On the one hand, they are enervated, depleted, losing energy, as shops and restaurants find that their businesses can’t be sustained by the occasional populations of these neighbourhoods.
(3) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(4) In deprivation-reared subjects, low-dose yohimbine produced reductions in tension and enervation, and increases in "normal" behaviors.
(5) That it developed later than other Southern medical schools has been attributed to multiple factors, among them rural isolation, restricted communication, limited transportation, sparse population, cultural deprivation, and climatologic enervation.
(6) But he missed the chance to be there at the beginning for artist-director Katsuhiro Otomo 's earlier masterpiece – 25 this year – when its enervating hyper-realism left retina burn in the eyes of action fans and film-makers worldwide.
(7) Enervation of the vas deferens and epididymis may be blocked and cause a smaller emission.
(8) David Cameron – whose natural comfort zone still remains talking breezily about the good times and giveaways around the corner – didn't come into politics to preside over an enervating decade of economic pessimism any more than Ed Miliband did to shrink the state.
(9) Conventional approaches using pooled subject data to increase the degree of freedom for statistical inference are enervated by the resultant introduction of intersubject variability.
(10) In 15 patients with acquired polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic recurrent polyneuropathy) the conduction velocity was measured in the peripheral nerves of the upper and lower extremities, the latency of the F wave was determined, and the somatosensory evoked potentials were assessed stimulating the median enerve and posterior tibial nerve.
(11) Response to oral yohimbine differed in several ways from subcutaneous and intravenous sodium lactate infusions, including prominent enervative symptoms and the appearance of sexual arousal.
(12) The majority of patients showed only minor impairment or normal results in the lower segment, which would point to a double or single enervation from the branches of the cervical plexus.
(13) Plannui The sheer enervation felt when surveying the rows of series-linked shows on your DVR planner that you will never have time to watch.
(14) Somuncu is among those who believe the book itself will not take off in terms of sales, describing it as “enervating and boring”, but he is convinced that the fascination for it would be far more muted now, had German authorities – more specifically the Bavarian government, which has held the rights to it – been more open about it.
(15) At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy.
(16) In the normal subjects, yohimbine, at both doses, produced increased tension and enervation and decreased species-typical "normal" behaviors.
(17) Obama’s victories over the last six years aside, this is a familiar spectacle for left-leaning Americans, enough so that the breast-beating is almost as enervating as all of those defeats.
(18) "I can't be held responsible for all that has happened since," she says when I bring this up, her eyes flashing and her enervated east-coast drawl undercut with just a hint of anger.
(19) Yohimbine significantly increased episodes of motoric activation and affective response interspersed with intervals of behavioral enervation.
(20) In addition, three more delimited forms of distress -- feelings of enervation, dysphoria, and sleep disturbances -- show higher levels among the older cohort.
Enfeeblement
Definition:
(n.) The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister, who was bounced into setting up the inquiry by Labour’s Ed Miliband and the Lib Dems’ Nick Clegg, now has a parliamentary majority and doesn’t need to worry about an enfeebled opposition.
(2) Occupy the SEC , a working group of Occupy Wall Street that includes former financial industry professionals and lawyers, sent a 325 page letter to the SEC outlining in detail how they felt the rule had been enfeebled.
(3) Had that argument been true, British businesses would be in leonine form by now, instead of their current chronic enfeeblement.
(4) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(5) Michael Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister, said May’s government was enfeebled and deeply divided.
(6) With the economy in its current enfeebled state, there are some in the City who think the total could hit £500bn before the Bank is done.
(7) Giving up the nuclear deterrent would be a “reckless gamble, that would enfeeble our allies and embolden our enemies”, she will say.
(8) Consultation over the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (Tupe), which protect employees' terms and conditions of employment when a business is transferred from one owner to another, and the already enfeebled Public Sector Equality Duty are also under way, disguised as measures to cut red tape.
(9) Two patients presented with local disorders caused by the removal of veins from the upper limbs, including hypoesthesia of the forearm in one case and anesthesia associated with regressive muscle enfeeblement in the other.
(10) Lord Heseltine told the World at One: “So you have an enfeebled government.
(11) Everywhere you looked, the on-screen aristocrats were revealed as misguided or enfeebled; their power waning, their subjects in revolt.
(12) Few policymakers in the EU would be willing to do Cameron any favours, resulting in an enfeebled, lonelier Britain.
(13) Nor do I wish to swap one stereotype – the enfeebled older worker – for another, all serenity and wisdom.
(14) Even in its enfeebled state, Ireland clung on yesterday to its 12.5% corporation tax rate .
(15) That August of 1943, Monnet also decided that European states would be so enfeebled after the war that they must unite into a federation.
(16) Even allowing for the impact of Buchanan’s rhetoric, displayed in a succession of interviews, it was probably unhelpful that his laments about enfeebled men, in contrast to women’s status as “divine creatures”, coincided with repeated evidence that it is apt to be the other way around.
(17) The talk among policymakers in European capitals struggling to counter what they see as the slick Kremlin operations aimed at dividing and enfeebling Europe is of “Putin’s useful idiots”.
(18) The towers debate is really the most conspicuous symptom of a bigger issue, which is the enfeeblement of planning in London.
(19) However, any form of surgery may be contra-indicated in a patient enfeebled by prolonged immobilisation from involvement of multiple joints.
(20) With an enfeebled Labour party, whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, could not even decide at the weekend whether or not to support a second independence vote, it was easy for Ms Sturgeon to warn that the Tories could be in power at Westminster for another 10, maybe even 15, years.