burnout

• burn-out

Deverbal from burn out.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/

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burnout (countable and uncountable, plural burnouts)

1. (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.

   Coordinate term: flameout

2. A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.

   There's no way we can hire that guy. He's a total burnout — he can't do the work.

   • 2011 August 4, Stephen Holden, “Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want to sit next to on any bus trip, magical or not.

4. (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the exhaustion of its fuel, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.

   Coordinate term: flameout

5. The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
6. (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.

• → Dutch: burn-out
• → Finnish: burnout
• → German: Burn-out

• Addressing the Crisis of Clinician Burnout, a YouTube video discussing the concept of burnout in medical professions

• outburn

From English burnout.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbøːnɑut/, [ˈbø̞ːnɑ̝ut̪]

burnout

1. (psychology) burnout

• “burnout”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02