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PARANOIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paranoia mean?
• PARANOIA (noun)
The noun PARANOIA has 1 sense:
1. a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
Familiarity information: PARANOIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("paranoia" is a kind of...):
psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
Context examples
Psychotic behavior accompanied simultaneously by persecutory or grandiose delusions (paranoia) and hallucinations (schizophrenia); delusional jealousy may be present.
(Paranoid Type Schizophrenia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
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