compassion fatigue
The English word “compassion fatigue” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.
Etymology
From compassion + fatigue.
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- compasser
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