DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delusions of persecution mean? 

• DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION (noun)
  The noun DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION has 1 sense:

1. a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined

  Familiarity information: DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("delusions of persecution" is a kind of...):

delusion; psychotic belief ((psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary)