Malingering is a medical term that refers to fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of "secondary gain" motives, which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs; getting lighter criminal sentences; or simply to attract attention or sympathy. Malingering is different from somatization disorder and factitious disorder. Failure to detect actual cases of malingering imposes a substantial economic burden on the health care system, and false attribution of malingering imposes a substantial burden of suffering on a significant proportion of the patient population.

Simulant ist jemand, der sich der Technik der Simulation bedient.

La sinistrose est un syndrome psychique observé chez les victimes d'accident du travail ou de la circulation, susceptible de donner lieu à réparation par l'employeur ou la partie adverse.