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compassion fatigue

noun

Etymology

From compassion + fatigue.

  1. derived from fatīgō
  2. borrowed from fatigue
  3. compounded as compassion fatigue — “compassion + fatigue”

Definitions

  1. The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to…

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

    • But we must beware of the creeping "compassion fatigues,” and we must fight to counter the tendency.
    • Events come to be significant as instances above all of something that can be named: generation gaps, compassion fatigues, capitalist greed, welfare cheating, road rage, and so on.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA