compassion fatigue
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "2002, J. Eric Gentry, Compassion Fatigue: A Crucible of Transformation, Steven N Gold, Jan Faust, Trauma Practice in the Wake of September 11, 2001, 2013, page 47, A common thread we have found with sufferers of compassion fatigue symptoms has been the progressive loss in their sense of connection and community."
- "Recently, researchers have focused on another disturbing consequence of negative news—compassion fatigue."
- "When people talk about “compassion fatigue” it means having difficulty tending to other peoples' needs. The following article comments on what compassion fatigue is and how to overcome it so that you are not permanently burned out."
- "• Personal variables: perfectionism and overinvolvement with patients, compassion fatigues, burnout […] ."
Etymology
From compassion + fatigue.