paranoia Definition
para·noia (par′ə no̵i′ə)
noun
Psychiatry a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions, as of grandeur or, esp., persecution, often, except in a schizophrenic state, with an otherwise relatively intact personality
Etymology: ModL < Gr, derangement < para-, beside (see para-) + nous, the mind
paranoia Synonyms
paranoia Usage Examples
Converse of object
- induce: Cocaine, on the other hand, damages the heart, can lead to strokes, and can induce paranoia.
- create: The plain contradictions, almost bound to create paranoia.
- increase: I thought: ' Why increase the paranoia about HIV?
- cause: It's an aerosolized gas which in small doses caused anxiety paranoia in it's subject.
- include: A high dose will produce more disturbing effects on the users mind, including paranoia.
- have: I have enough paranoia in my soul on a local level to last me.
Converse of subject
accompany: Depression is often accompanied by paranoia and sometimes psychosis.
Adjective modifier
- mild: In attempting to set history straight, one is occasionally touched by mild paranoia.
- extreme: Extreme paranoia within the group May have been present.
- urban: Judith Williamson, ' Up Where You Belong ' Week Two Anxiety and urban paranoia.
- total: I call it the dream of total paranoia, in which the will shores up the appearance of normal reality.
- political: Not even Hollywood was immune from the birth pangs of unionism and pre- McCarthy era political paranoia over the secret revolution of the masses.
- own: Yet on EP B, Battles seeks deep into their own paranoia.
Modifies a noun
speaking: That isn't paranoia speaking, that's exactly what this horrible group of managers is like.
Noun used with modifier
war: Not bad for a bit of American cold war paranoia.
Preposition: of
- people: Picard sighed in amazement at the barbaric paranoia of these people.
- techno-fetishism: Simultaneously deeply involved with technology and deeply suspicious of its effects, Gibson's work celebrates both the liberation and paranoia of techno-fetishism.
- era: Remembering that this would have been written during the height of the cold war, it is full of the paranoia of the era.
- time: All this suggests that Tate was either acting under instructions from the ministry, or was accurately reflecting the paranoia of the times.
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