compassion n a feeling of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another, often including the desire to alleviate it (C14: from Old French, from Late Latin compassio fellow feeling, from compati to suffer with, from Latin com- with + pati to bear, suffer)
compassion fatigue
n the inability to react sympathetically to a crisis, disaster, etc., because of overexposure to previous crises, disasters, etc.