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Definition: Malingering |
MalingeringNoun1. Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malingering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Malingering is a psychological term that refers to an individual faking the symptoms of mental or physical disorders. Unlike in somatoform disorders where they seek primary and secondary gain, these individuals are pretending to suffer for myriad of reasons such as fraud, dereliction of responsibilities, or to lighten criminal sentences.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Malingering."
Synonym: MalingeringSynonym: skulking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Sham; pretense, pretending, malingering. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Malingering |
| English words defined with "malingering": Malingery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "malingering": Bach test, Bach's test ♦ harlan, Harlan test. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "malingering": malinger. (references) |
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| "Malingering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Malingering" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malingering | 34 |
malingering memory test | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "malingering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | simulim (dissimulation, false pretences, simulation). (various references) | |
Arabic | تمارض (malinger, possum, swing the lead). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | симулиране (simulation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 开小差 (malinger, MAlingered). (various references) | |
Danish | simulering (experimental acting, feigning, simulation), simulation (feigning, simulation). (various references) | |
Dutch | simulatio (feigning), simulatie (feigning, simulated training, simulation, simulation training). (various references) | |
French | simulation (malinger), personne qui fait semblant d'être malade. (various references) | |
German | simulierend (feigning, simulative). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lógás (absenteeism, cut, suspension). (various references) | |
Italian | simulazione (faking, feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation). (various references) | |
Korean | 꾀병을 부림. (various references) | |
Manx | chingys vreagagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alingeringmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | simulação de doença, simulação (affectation, bluff, disguise, leg pull, make-believe, pretence, pretense, simulacrum). (various references) | |
Russian | симуляция (dissimulation, simulation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabušavanje (skulk), simuliranje (dissemblance, pretending, simulation). (various references) | |
Spanish | proceso de enfermedad. (various references) | |
Swedish | simulering (affectation, simulation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | симуляція (postiche, simulation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Malingering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maligalig, malingerin, milingering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: engrailing, realigning. | |
-2 letters: enlarging, lingering, maligning, margining, regaining, reimaging, remailing, remaining, renailing. | |
-3 letters: aliening, aligning, angeling, angering, arginine, emailing, enraging, gainlier, ganglier, germinal, glairing, gleaming, gleaning, gnarling, graining, imaginer, inarming, lagering, learning, mainline, maligner, malinger, mangling, migraine, mingling, regaling, reigning, relining, remigial, renaming. | |
-4 letters: aginner, airline, aligner, alining, aneling, angling, aniline, argling, eanling, earning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-i-l-m-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: greenmailing. | |
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