Munchausen's syndromenoun [ S ]
uk/ˈmʌn.tʃaʊ.zənz ˌsɪn.drəʊm/us/ˈmʌn.tʃaʊ.zənz ˌsɪn.droʊm/a mental condition in which someone pretends to be ill or deliberately tries to make themselves ill in order to get attention and treatment from doctors or other medical workers
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mental & psychiatric disorders
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- neurotic
- non compos mentis
- paranoia
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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