paranoiac

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Leipzig, 1896) have explained "paranoiac" conditions by a laming of the association-organ.

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  1. noun A paranoid.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling paranoia.

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  • I remember a famous anecdote about a demented man: Someone said, 'You are a paranoiac, my dear fellow,' and he answered, 'Perhaps, but that doesn't prevent people from plotting against me.' —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • But it could also be as un -innocent as a paranoiac's nightmares. —  Angelmass
  • By then it had grown in a misfit of mischief to truly horrific proportions, acquiring a distinctive limp, stirring up a terrifying swarm of grasshoppers, at every stage resisting the analytical faculties of his paranoiac-critical method--such that even now he had no idea what it was Now looking up at his two close Catalan brothers, Dali imagined them wearing scatalogical headpieces: owls topped by turds. —  AEonTwo
  • City Paranoid for sure creates a kind of 'paranoiac' sensation. —  Side-Line news feed
  • Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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/pærəˈniæk,ˈnɔɪæk/
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