Usually means: Exhaustion from constant empathetic engagement.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. compassion fatigue: Merriam-Webster
  2. compassion fatigue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compassion fatigue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compassion fatigue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compassion fatigue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. compassion fatigue: Wiktionary
  7. compassion fatigue: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. compassion fatigue: Dictionary.com
  9. Compassion fatigue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. compassion fatigue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. compassion fatigue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compassion fatigue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. COMPASSION FATIGUE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  3. compassion fatigue: Medical dictionary

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  1. compassion fatigue: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (compassion fatigue)

noun:  The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.

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