Presenting with symptoms which are incompatible with the severity of injury and in which there is clear evidence of the conscious attempt to deceive.
Faking a physical or psychological incapacity in order to avoid a responsibility or gain an end; the goal is readily recognized from the individual's circumstances. To be distinguished from conversion disorder, in which the incapacity is assumed to be beyond voluntary control.
Deliberate exaggeration of the symptoms of an illness or injury for gain. For example, pretending to be ill in order to escape duty or work.
Deliberate faking of physical or mental symptoms for a self-serving purpose.
Deliberate simulation or exaggeration of an illness of disability in order to avoid an unpleasant situation.
A conscious simulation of an illness (with no organic pathology present) used to avoid an unpleasant situation or for personal gain.
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
faking or exaggerating symptoms to achieve a specific purpose.
To pretend inability so as to avoid duty or work.
the conscious mimicry of physical disease to achieve some material gain.
Pretending to be ill, usually in order to avoid work or to gain attention or access to drugs.
Faking or conscious deception; voluntary production of symptoms for a rationally considered goal, such as financial recompense, avoidance of responsibility, etc.
The faking of a hearing loss for social or financial reasons.
Malingering is a medical and psychological term that refers to an individual fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of motives, including getting financial compensation (often tied to fraud), avoiding work, obtaining drugs, getting lighter criminal sentences, or simply to attract attention or sympathy. Because malingerers are usually seeking some sort of primary or secondary gain, this disorder remains separate of Somatization disorders and factitious disorder in which the gain is not obvious. In its most chronic form, malingering may present as Munchausen syndrome.
