DECISION FATIGUE Definition & Meaning

decision fatigue

[ dih-sizh-uhn fuh-teeg ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Psychology, Psychiatry.

mental and emotional exhaustion resulting from excessive or relentless decision-making, especially the cumulative effect of small decisions that one makes throughout each day:
Which socks to wear or what size coffee to order may seem trivial, but add them to the other 30,000 choices you’ll make today, and you’ve got the recipe for decision fatigue.

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First recorded in 2000–05

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Examples have not been reviewed.

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“It’s a bit of decision fatigue at this point.”

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