0 the situation in which people stop thinking or worrying about a problem that is affecting a lot of people and stop giving money to them because the problem has continued for too long
The initial willingness of the western countries to assist in resettlement was overcome in 1986 by a bad case of compassion fatigue.
We have reached what they call "a level of compassion fatigue".
Over the past few weeks, we have heard much talk about aid fatigue and compassion fatigue.
In fact, we are witnessing what refugee-concerned people have come to know as compassion fatigue.
I wonder whether that was due to compassion fatigue.
I do not think that the problem is one of compassion fatigue, although there may be signs of that here and there.
For them, there is no compassion fatigue.
I am well aware of compassion fatigue.
