empathy belly
n.— «The Cape Town sports journalist recently took on the arduous labours of a pregnant woman by donning a fake pregnant belly better known as an “empathy belly” for the last few months of his wife’s pregnancy.» —“Mark finds being pregnant is a real pain” IOL (South Africa) Jan. 29, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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