paranoia

paranoia

See also: Paranoia, paranóia, and paranoïa

English

Alternative forms

• paranœa, paranoea (obsolete, rare)
• paranoïa (rare)

Etymology

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

Surface analysis is para- (“abnormal, beyond”) +‎ nous (“mind”) +‎ -ia (“(medical) condition”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪə
• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧noia

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• paranoiac
• paranoic
• paranoically
• paranoid
• paranoid schizophrenia

Related terms

• See: nous#Related terms
• See: para-#Derived terms

Translations

a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: بَارَانُويَا‎ f (baranūyā), جُنُون الاِضْطِهَاد‎ pl (junūn al-iḍṭihād) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: парано́я f (paranója) Bulgarian: парано́я (bg) f (paranója) Catalan: paranoia f Chinese: Mandarin: 偏執狂／偏执狂 (zh) (piānzhíkuáng), 妄想狂 (zh) (wàngxiǎngkuáng) Czech: paranoia (cs) f Danish: paranoia Esperanto: paranojo Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: paranoia (fi), vainoharhaisuus (fi) French: paranoïa (fr) f Galician: paranoia f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Paranoia (de) f, Verfolgungswahn (de) m Greek: παράνοια (el) f (paránoia) Hebrew: פָּרָנוֹיָה‎ (he) f (paranóya) Hindi: संविभ्रम (samvibhram) Hungarian: paranoia (hu) Icelandic: vænisýki f Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Irish: paranóia f Italian: paranoia (it) f Japanese: パラノイア (paranoia), 偏執病 (へんしゅうびょう, henshūbyō) Kazakh: паранойя (paranoiä) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 편집병(偏執症) (pyeonjipbyeong), 패러노이아 (paereonoia) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: paranoja f Norwegian: paranoia Persian: پارانویا‎ (fa) (pârânoyâ) Polish: paranoja (pl) f Portuguese: paranoia (pt) Romanian: paranoia (ro) f Russian: парано́йя (ru) f (paranójja) Scots: paranoia Serbo-Croatian: Roman: paranoja (sh) f, manija proganjanja f Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: paranója f Spanish: paranoia (es) f Swedish: paranoia (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: paranoya (tr), yansıtımca (tr) Ukrainian: парано́я f (paranója) Vietnamese: hoang tưởng ảo giác

extreme, irrational distrust of others

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: paranojo Finnish: vainoharhaisuus (fi) French: paranoïa (fr) f German: Paranoia (de) f Greek: παράνοια (el) f (paránoia), καχυποψία (el) f (kachypopsía) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: paranoia (hu), üldözési mánia (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Irish: paranóia f Italian: paranoia (it) f Polish: paranoja (pl) f Portuguese: paranoia (pt) f Romanian: paranoia (ro) f Russian: парано́йя (ru) f (paranójja) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: paranoja (sh) f Spanish: paranoia (es) f Swedish: paranoia (sv) c, skuggrädsla c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can

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French: (please verify) paranoïa (fr) f

References

• “‖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]

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Catalan

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Noun

paranoia f (plural paranoies)

1. paranoia

Related terms

• paranoic

Further reading

• “paranoia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paranoia f

1. paranoia

   Synonym: stihomam

Declension

Declension of paranoia

	singular	plural
nominative	paranoia	paranoie
genitive	paranoie	paranoií
dative	paranoii	paranoiím
accusative	paranoii	paranoie
vocative	paranoie	paranoie
locative	paranoii	paranoiích
instrumental	paranoií	paranoiemi

Related terms

• paranoidní
• paranoik

Further reading

• paranoia in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• paranoia in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Noun

paranoia

1. paranoia

Declension

Declension of paranoia

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	paranoia	paranoiaen
genitive	paranoias	paranoiaens

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.raːˈnoː.jaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧noia

Noun

paranoia f (uncountable)

1. (psychology) paranoia

Related terms

• paranoïcus
• paranoïde

Adjective

paranoia (not comparable)

1. (informal) paranoid

   Synonym: paranoïde

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Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrɑnoi̯jɑ/, [ˈpɑrɑˌno̞i̯j(ː)ɑ]
• Rhymes: -oija
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧ra‧noi‧a

Noun

paranoia

1. paranoia (delusion of persecution)

   Synonym: vainoharha

2. paranoia (state of being paranoid)

   Synonym: vainoharhaisuus

Declension

Declension of paranoia (type koira) singular plural nominative paranoia paranoiat genitive paranoian paranoi'ien paranoiain partitive paranoiaa paranoi'ia accusative paranoia paranoian paranoiat 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 instructive – paranoi'in abessive paranoiatta paranoi'itta comitative – paranoi'ineen

Related terms

• paranoidi

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paranoia

1. (psychology) paranoia (a psychotic disorder)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	paranoia	paranoiák
accusative	paranoiát	paranoiákat
dative	paranoiának	paranoiáknak
instrumental	paranoiával	paranoiákkal
causal-final	paranoiáért	paranoiákért
translative	paranoiává	paranoiákká
terminative	paranoiáig	paranoiákig
essive-formal	paranoiaként	paranoiákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	paranoiában	paranoiákban
superessive	paranoián	paranoiákon
adessive	paranoiánál	paranoiáknál
illative	paranoiába	paranoiákba
sublative	paranoiára	paranoiákra
allative	paranoiához	paranoiákhoz
elative	paranoiából	paranoiákból
delative	paranoiáról	paranoiákról
ablative	paranoiától	paranoiáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	paranoiáé	paranoiáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	paranoiáéi	paranoiákéi

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

Derived terms

• paranoiás

References

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

Further reading

• paranoia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paranoia f (plural paranoie)

1. (psychology, figurative) paranoia

Related terms

• paranoico
• paranoide

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• paranóia (obsolete form)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”).

Noun

paranoia f (plural paranoias)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From French paranoia.

Noun

paranoia f (uncountable)

1. paranoia

Declension

declension of paranoia (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) paranoia	paranoiaua
genitive/dative	(unei) -	-i
vocative

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”). More at paranoia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

paranoia f (plural paranoias)

1. paranoia

Derived terms

• paranoico
• paranoide

Further reading

• “paranoia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014