compassion fatigue
English
noun
Definitions
- Exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to previous misfortunes.
Etymology
Compound from English compassion + English fatigue.
Origin
English
fatigue
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antifatigue English
- compassion English
- compassionable English
- compassionless English
- fatiguability English
- fatigue English
- incompassion English
- indefatigability English
- overfatigue English
- redemption fatigue English
- uncompassion English
- compassion Old French