気疲れ

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 気疲れ(きづかれ) is mental fatigue from tension or sustained attention to the people and circumstances around one.
• Basic usage: It expresses exhaustion after dining with unfamiliar people or repeatedly handling customers in an unfamiliar role.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Predicate forms
  • It is used in predicate forms such as 気疲れする and 気疲れした.
  • As a noun, it appears in expressions such as 気疲れを感じる, feeling this kind of fatigue.
• A more specific cause than 疲れ
  • Whereas 疲れ broadly refers to fatigue, 気疲れ focuses on exhaustion caused by mental attentiveness or tension.
  • It can describe fatigue from attending continuously to people or circumstances even in a setting involving little physical movement.