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FDIA

FDIA is the initialism of factitious disorder imposed on another.

Meaning of factitious disorder imposed on another

Noun

factitious disorder imposed on another (countable and uncountable, plural factitious disorders imposed on another)

  1. A factitious (artificial) mental disorder in which someone feigns a health issue in another person, typically a caregiver onto their child, in order to garner attention or sympathy.
    Synonyms:
    FDIA, fabricated or induced illness by carers, factitious disorder by proxy, Meadow's syndrome, Münchausen syndrome by proxy

Questions about FDIA

What is FDIA the initialism of?
FDIA is the initialism of factitious disorder imposed on another.

Words near FDIA in the dictionary

  1. FDFS
  2. FDG
  3. FDH
  4. FDHs
  5. FDI
  6. FDIA
  7. FDIC
  8. FDICIA
  9. FDII
  10. FDIL
  11. FDIs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FDIA (page history and authors); factitious disorder imposed on another (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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