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• Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.From the entry threat
• That way you only need like three hits, and no paranoia.1999 June 21, 83, “Whigg out on weed?”, in alt.rave (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Feb 2026. From the entry hydro
• If paranoia is a mental disorder, then pronoia is a mental disorder.1997, Trudy Govier, “Socrates, the Sting Ray of Athens”, in Socrates’ Children: Thinking and Knowing in the Western Tradition…. From the entry pronoia
• The paranoia of the Turkish Sultan Abdul, the massacrist, did not go further.1935, Gerald Heard, The Source of Civilization. From the entry massacrist
• But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.2023 January 13, Nick Haramis, “When Did We All Become Pop Culture Detectives?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fine line
• He is running Twitter into the ground like Donald Trump ran the US government—fueled by fits of indignation and paranoia.2023 July 5, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry run into the ground
• Psychological traits, such as social pathology, paranoia and schizophrenia, psychopathy, hoarding disorder, and loxism are also much more prevalent.2022 May, Payton Gendron, You Wait For A Signal While Your People Wait For You, archived from the original on 17 May 2022, page 25. From the entry loxism
• Lederberg's ideas were tinged with Cold War paranoia.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 88. From the entry panspermia
• Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free…. From the entry ragetweet
• And there's James, a 31-year-old British incel from County Down with a history of social anxiety, paranoia and depression.2019 July 12, Tomé Morrissy-Swan, “My life as a British incel, and how I removed myself from the misogynistic movement”, in The Daily…. From the entry KHHV
• More recently, the Chinese authorities' paranoia in religious matters has become apparent in the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.2002, Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174. From the entry Falun Gong
• A dash of paranoia spices up your obnoxiosity.1999 May 25, gack, “I AM IN THE CREDITS, I AM IN THE FILM”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Jan 2024. From the entry obnoxiosity
• "Pronoia" is comparable to paranoia (which is commonly believed to be a mental disease), but is its emotional opposite.1997, Trudy Govier, “Socrates, the Sting Ray of Athens”, in Socrates’ Children: Thinking and Knowing in the Western Tradition…. From the entry pronoia
• More extreme antipet people are crazed by paranoia over the possibility of contracting some disease from an animal.1980, Michael W. Fox, Returning to Eden: animal rights and human responsibility. From the entry antipet
• Similarly, the effects of marihuana being smoked in the context of police persecution invite feelings of paranoia and semipsychotic episodes.1977, Drugs and Politics, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry semipsychotic
• There’s a common paranoia among the crypto-wealthy that they’ll be targeted and robbed since there’s no bank securing the money, so many are obsessively secretive.2018 January 13, Nellie Bowles, “Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not”, in The New York Times. From the entry cryptowealthy
• Folks gobbled this book up because it packed intricate puzzles, propulsive plotwork, clammy paranoia, cheeky irreligiousness and armchair globetrotting into one teasingly easy-to-read brain snack.2009 June 20, Geoff Pevere, “The Century So Far: Books”, in Toronto Star. From the entry plotwork
• Lacking food, Jimmy reverts to his “minstrels'” — speed — and in a paranoia of drugs and near-starvation the pair fall out.2008, Julian Evans, Semi-Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis, page 510. From the entry minstrel
• Like someone who'd learned how best to cope with chronic illness, he never allowed himself to think of his paranoia as an aspect of self.2004, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, →ISBN. From the entry lateralism
• Moreover (contra conspiracy-theoretic paranoia), the financial or political knowledge of even those with the most questionable motives and the greatest power is finite.2000, Gary Brent Madison, Is There a Canadian Philosophy?, page 155. From the entry conspiracy-theoretic
• The complicated scopophilic-scopophobic dialectic of exhibitionism and paranoia that is evident in such figures as Rousseau shows the intimate linkages between vision and psychological phenomena.1986, Martin Jay, “In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought”, in David…. From the entry scopophobic
• The New World Order is a term that has often been laughed at, ridiculed and considered as paranoia by tin hat wearing conspiracy theorists in recent history.2011, Andrew Curtiss, 1984 Redux: Say Hello to Big Brother, page 491. From the entry tin hat

Meaning of paranoia

1. noun A psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others.
2. noun Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

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How do you use paranoia in a sentence?

Paranoia is used as a noun. For example: “Verifying and addressing actual threats is not paranoia.”

What is a short sentence with paranoia?

“A dash of paranoia spices up your obnoxiosity.”

What does paranoia mean?

Paranoia means a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others.