compassion fatigue
fatigue, emotional distress, or apathy resulting from the constant demands of caring for others or from constant appeals from charities: compassion fatigue experienced by doctors and nurses.
Origin of compassion fatigue
1980–85,
Americanism
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British Dictionary definitions for compassion fatigue
compassion fatigue
noun
the inability to react sympathetically to a crisis, disaster, etc, because of overexposure to previous crises, disasters, etc