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compassion fatigues

compassion fatigues is the plural of compassion fatigue.

Meaning of compassion fatigue

Noun

compassion fatigue (usually uncountable, plural compassion fatigues)

  1. (usually) The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.
    • But we must beware of the creeping "compassion fatigues,” and we must fight to counter the tendency.1992, The Second Annual Refugee Day: October 30, 1991, Office of the U. S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, page 34

Questions about compassion fatigues

What is compassion fatigues the plural of?
Compassion fatigues is the plural of compassion fatigue.

Words near compassion fatigues in the dictionary

  1. compassing
  2. compassing out
  3. compassings
  4. compassion
  5. compassion fatigue
  6. compassion fatigues
  7. compassionable
  8. compassionate
  9. compassionate conservatism
  10. compassionate conservativism
  11. compassionate leave

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