different between malingery vs malinger

English

Noun

malingery (uncountable)

1. The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

English

Etymology

From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??l????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??l????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Verb

malinger (third-person singular simple present malingers, present participle malingering, simple past and past participle malingered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

   Hypernyms: (dated) goldbrick, shirk

   • 1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, Volume 56

     It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

Derived terms

• malingerer
• malingering
• malingery

Translations

See also

• factitious disorder, differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking

Anagrams

• Germinal, germinal, maligner

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

malinger m or f

1. indefinite plural of maling