English Explanatory Dictionary

compassion fatigue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.

Word forms

compassion fatigue compassion fatigues

Etymology

From compassion + fatigue.

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