See also: Paranoia, paranóia, and paranoïa

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness), from παράνοος (paránoos, demented), from παρά (pará, beyond, beside) + νόος (nóos, mind, spirit).

By surface analysis, para- (abnormal, beyond) +‎ nous (mind) +‎ -ia ((medical) condition).

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paranoia (countable and uncountable, plural paranoias or (archaic) paranoiæ)

  1. The obsolete name for a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of 6 subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others
    Antonym: pronoia
  2. Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

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  • ‖Paranoia, paranœa” listed on page 460 of volume VII (O, P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1909]
      ‖Paranoia (pærănoi·ă), paranœa (-nī·ă). Path. [mod.L. a. Gr. παράνοια, f. παράνο-ος distracted, f. παρα- beside + νό-ος, νοῦς mind.] Mental derangement; spec. chronic mental unsoundness characterized by delusions or hallucinations, esp. of grandeur, persecution, etc. [¶; 4 quots.: 1857, 1891, 1892, 1899; ¶] Hence Paranoi·ac, -œ·ac, a. adj. afflicted with paranoia; b. sb.; also Parano·ic, -nœ·ic a. [¶; 3 quots.: 1857, 1892, 1899]

Catalan

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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paranoia f (plural paranoies)

  1. paranoia
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Czech

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈparanoja]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧noia

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paranoia f

  1. paranoia
    Synonym: stihomam

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  • paranoia”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • paranoia”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • paranoia”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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paranoia

  1. paranoia

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Declension of paranoia
common
gender
singular
indefinite definite
nominative paranoia paranoiaen
genitive paranoias paranoiaens

Dutch

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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  • IPA(key): /ˌpaː.raːˈnoː.jaː/
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  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧noia

Noun

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paranoia f (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) paranoia
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Adjective

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paranoia (not comparable)

  1. (informal) paranoid
    Synonym: paranoïde

Finnish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑrɑnoi̯jɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝rɑ̝ˌno̞i̯j(ː)ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -oijɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pa‧ra‧noi‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): pa‧ra‧noia

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paranoia

  1. paranoia (delusion of persecution)
    Synonym: vainoharha
  2. paranoia (state of being paranoid)
    Synonym: vainoharhaisuus

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Inflection of paranoia (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative paranoia paranoiat
genitive paranoian paranoi'ien
partitive paranoiaa paranoi'ia
illative paranoiaan paranoi'iin
singular plural
nominative paranoia paranoiat
accusative nom. paranoia paranoiat
gen. paranoian
genitive paranoian paranoi'ien
paranoiain rare
partitive paranoiaa paranoi'ia
inessive paranoiassa paranoi’'issa
elative paranoiasta paranoi’'ista
illative paranoiaan paranoi'iin
adessive paranoialla paranoi’'illa
ablative paranoialta paranoi’'ilta
allative paranoialle paranoi’'ille
essive paranoiana paranoi'ina
translative paranoiaksi paranoi’'iksi
abessive paranoiatta paranoi’'itta
instructive paranoi’'in
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of paranoia (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpɒrɒnojɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧no‧ia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

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paranoia

  1. (psychology) paranoia (a psychotic disorder)

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Possessive forms of paranoia
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. paranoiám paranoiáim
2nd person sing. paranoiád paranoiáid
3rd person sing. paranoiája paranoiái
1st person plural paranoiánk paranoiáink
2nd person plural paranoiátok paranoiáitok
3rd person plural paranoiájuk paranoiáik

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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  • paranoia in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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  • IPA(key): /pa.raˈnɔ.ja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔja
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧nò‧ia

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paranoia f (plural paranoie)

  1. (psychology, figurative) paranoia
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Portuguese

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness).

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ɾaˈnɔj.ɐ/ [pa.ɾaˈnɔɪ̯.ɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ɾaˈnɔj.a/ [pa.ɾaˈnɔɪ̯.a]

  • Rhymes: -ɔjɐ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧noi‧a

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paranoia f (plural paranoias)

  1. paranoia (a psychotic disorder characterised by delusions of persecution)

Romanian

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Borrowed from French paranoia.

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paranoia f (uncountable)

  1. paranoia

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Declension of paranoia
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative paranoia paranoiaua
genitive-dative - -i
vocative

Spanish

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, madness). More at paranoia.

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  • IPA(key): /paɾaˈnoja/ [pa.ɾaˈno.ja]
  • Rhymes: -oja
  • Syllabification: pa‧ra‧no‧ia

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paranoia f (plural paranoias)

  1. paranoia

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Swedish

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paranoia c

  1. paranoia (psychiatric illness)
  2. paranoia (being paranoid)

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