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Paranoia
paranoia
1. If you say that someone suffers from paranoia, you think that they are too suspicious and afraid of other people. The mood is one of paranoia and expectation of war. N-UNCOUNT 2. In psychology, if someone suffers from paranoia, they wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm them, or believe themselves to be much more important than they really are. N-UNCOUNT
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noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind Date: circa 1811 1. a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations 2. a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others • ~c also paranoic adjective or noun • paranoically adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a mental disorder esp. characterized by delusions of persecution and self-importance. 2 an abnormal tendency to suspect and mistrust others. Derivatives paranoiac adj. & n. paranoiacally adv. paranoic adj. paranoically adv. paranoid adj. & n. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk f. paranoos distracted (as PARA-(1), noos mind) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n 1 an unreasonable belief that you cannot trust other people, or that they are trying to harm you or saying bad things about you (No one's blaming her - it's pure paranoia!) 2 technical a serious mental illness that makes someone believe that people hate them and treat them badly ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1891 (earlier paranoea 1811), from Gk. paranoia "mental derangement, madness," from paranoos "mentally ill, insane," from para- "beside, beyond" + noos "mind." Paranoid (adj.) is first attested 1904. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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