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Paranoia

Paranoia Meaning & Definition
Paranoia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Paranoia?

[n] a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

Synonyms | Synonyms for Paranoia:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Paranoia: alternating personality | brain disease | catatonia | catatonic schizophrenia | crack-up | dementia praecox | depersonalization | disconnection | dissociation | dissociation of personality | double personality | dual personality | emotional disorder | emotional dissociation | emotional instability | functional nervous disorder | hebephrenia | hebephrenic schizophrenia | insanity | maladjustment | manic-depressive psychosis | melancholia | mental disorder | mental dissociation | mental illness | multiple personality | nervous breakdown | nervous disorder | neurosis | paranoid personality | paranoid psychosis | paraphrenia | personality disorder | personality disorganization | problems in living | psychosis | reaction | schizoid personality | schizoidism | schizophrenia | schizothymia | social maladjustment | split personality

See Also | psychosis

Paranoia In Webster's Dictionary

\Par`a*noi"a\, n. (Med.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious 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.
\Par`a*noi"a\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*noi"[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. para`noia.] (Med.) Mental derangement; insanity.

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