an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are going to harm or criticize you: There's a lot of paranoia about crime at the ...

The meaning of PARANOIA is mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations.

It is an irregularity of the mind, a mental disorder that distorts a person's perception of what is real.

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear, often to the point of delusion and ...

8 дней назад · feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to harm you: He started feeling ...

6 дней назад · 2 meanings: 1. psychiatry an intense and irrational belief that other people are attempting to cause one harm 2. informal.

a mental illness in which a person may wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm them or that they are someone very important.

paranoia · ​the belief that other people dislike or want to harm you, when there is no evidence or reason for this. External threats will just fuel paranoia ...

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun paranoia. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

A mental disorder in which a person has an extreme fear and distrust of others. A paranoid person may have delusions that people are trying to harm him or ...