noun [U]
1 (medical) a mental illness in which a person may wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm them, that they are sb very important, etc.
2 (informal) fear or suspicion of other people when there is no evidence or reason for this
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for paranoia is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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