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compassion fatigue

  1. 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.

compassion fatigue

noun

  1. the inability to react sympathetically to a crisis, disaster, etc, because of overexposure to previous crises, disasters, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of compassion fatigue1

1980–85, Americanism
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Example Sentences

And the television viewers and radio listeners and newspaper readers are suffering from compassion fatigue.

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