{
  "id": "burnout.capacity",
  "term": "burnout",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "endurance",
  "domain": "system",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "maintenance sustained past the rate at which the maintaining capacity is restored, until that capacity leaves its own window.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "capacity.size",
      "potential.capacity",
      "time.dimension",
      "rating.evaluation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Maintenance continues beyond the restoration rate of capacity, causing gradual depletion until the capacity falls outside its viable range.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exhaustion of sustaining potential",
      "temporal overshoot of upkeep",
      "irreversible exit from functional range"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "California's 2021 energy grid strain during heatwaves exposed depleted reserves after months of underinvestment in maintenance and renewable integration.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The decline of Detroit’s municipal services by 2013, following decades of population loss and budget cuts, overwhelmed remaining operational capacity.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A nurse working 16 consecutive 12-hour shifts in an ICU reaches physical and cognitive exhaustion, impairing clinical judgment.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "burnout occurs when maintenance exceeds restoration rate"
    },
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "capacity leaving its window results in aimless drift"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "burnout"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added constitutive concepts omitted in original record (capacity.size, potential.capacity, time.dimension, rating.evaluation) to align with definition's true dependencies; slightly tightened definitio"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "maintenance sustained past the point where the capacity to maintain is no longer replenished, until that capacity exits its viable range."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-burnout.capacity"
}