asthenia

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Weakness; loss of strength.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)weakness

   “You see nothing that might even remotely suggest life, beyond the solitary brave watering the ponies below you; but that is because the asthenia of civilization has left you half blind as well as half deaf, for where you see nothing and hear nothing Geronimo is conscious of life, movement and sound-of rodents, reptiles and birds awaiting, quiescent, the lessening heat of dusk.”