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paranoia
noun as in mental illness
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- crack-up
- craziness
- delusions
- depression
- derangement
- disturbed mind
- emotional disorder
- emotional instability
- loss of mind
- lunacy
- madness
- maladjustment
- mania
- mental disease
- mental sickness
- nervous breakdown
- nervous disorder
- neurosis
- neurotic disorder
- phobia
- psychopathy
- psychosis
- sick mind
- troubled mind
- unbalanced mind
- unsoundness of mind
Example Sentences
Now we wonder whether there is even a human on the other end—or a bot that might fuel someone’s dangerous paranoia.
If they quit using the substance, they experience symptoms of withdrawal, which can range from irritability and nausea to paranoia and seizures.
The country, he said in an email interview, was “inflamed by military fervor…and then by paranoia,” which caused “severe damage to democracy.”
“It was paranoia, the perception that this violence was unstoppable, that really sent the nation spiraling toward Civil War in 1860 and ’61.”
Where their previous albums were firmly rooted in Ireland, Romance was inspired by the neon lights of Tokyo and classic Japanese animation Akira, whose themes of nuclear era paranoia inform the band's nervy guitar anthems.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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