malingering
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The deliberate fabrication or gross exaggeration of symptoms motivated by an external incentive such as compensation or avoiding duty.
The inconsistencies between his reported disability and his observed behaviour raised the question of malingering.
Law noun
The feigning of illness or incapacity, sometimes to avoid trial or punishment.
The psychiatrist ruled out malingering, finding the symptoms wholly genuine.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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