Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason.
- n. Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
Wiktionary
- n. A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution.
- n. Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called “cranks.” Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
- n. colloq. Unwarranted suspicion of the motives of others; -- used colloquially in a non-technical sense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek παράνοια (paranoia, "madness"), from παράνοος (paranoos, "demented"), from παρά (para, "beyond, beside") + νόος (noos, "mind, spirit"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek, madness, from paranoos, demented : para-, beyond; see para-1 + nous, noos, mind. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“More incredible and ridiculous paranoia from the right wing. barbati”
“No. Just more vitriolic paranoia from the sore losers on the right.”
“It seems to me the paranoia is coming from the government, not the people.”
“Like the KKK of the 1920s and the Birchers of the 1950s, the Tea Party movement is almost completely white, largely rural or suburban, monocultural, and deeply steeped in paranoia and ignorance.”
“The primary defense mechanism for paranoia is projection of one's own conflicts, fears, and rage.”
“As for oil and how much has been burned and how much remains, paranoia is not a good thing.”
“I think that one is based in paranoia and enforces their inherent proclivity for stereotyping.”
“You may call it paranoia, but its really vigilance.”
“The technique may be dated, but the paranoia is timeless.”
“Massive and unrelenting paranoia is not confined to the right-wing, unfortunately.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘paranoia’.
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A-R-A Words
It's an odd-looking pattern in English. Please add words if it makes you happy. :) K-POW! Wow @gulyasrobi!
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
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SCIE - neurology
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Possible side effects may include...
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Triphthongs
Words with triphthongs in
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Word Disassociation
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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