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Noun Concept
Categories: Malingering, Forensic psychology, Medical law
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malingering  skulking  revendication neurosis  delusional revendication  feigned illness
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Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated WordNet 3.0
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Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as relief from duty or work, avoiding arrest, receiving medication, and mitigating prison sentencing. Wikipedia
Faking illness for financial or similar personal gain Wikidata
The action of one who skulks. Wiktionary
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They developed a test to detect malingering WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
evasion
health care fraud
factitious disorder
HAS KIND
self-inflicted wound
disability fraud
diplomatic illness
DERIVATION
malinger
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DIFFERENT FROM
factitious disorder
HEALTH SPECIALTY
psychiatry
psychology
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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malingering, skulking
Wikipedia
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malingering
Wikidata
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malingering, revendication neurosis
Wiktionary
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skulking
Wikipedia Redirections
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Feigning sickness, Malinger, malingerers
Wikidata Alias
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delusional revendication, feigned illness, malingerer

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