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Definition: Paranoid |
ParanoidAdjective1. Suffering from paranoia. Noun1. A person afflicted with paranoia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "paranoid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
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Paranoia is excessive concern about a one's own well being, sometimes suggesting the person holds persecutory beliefs concerning a threat to themselves or their property.
In the original Greek παράνοια (paranoia) means self-referential, and it is this meaning which has been adopted in psychiatry, especially European psychiatry, in reference to a delusional belief (see delusions). Specifically, the term paranoia is used to denote a delusional belief that is self-referential. The delusional belief may not necessarily be persecutory. For example, a person who has a delusional belief that they are an important figure (such as being Jesus, Napoleon, or the Dalai Lama) may be diagnosed as having a paranoid belief or, if they hold this belief in the context of schizophrenia, as having paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoia and delusions in general are considered an important (if not the most important) diagnostic feature of psychosis.
The term paranoia was previously used in psychiatry used to describe what is now called delusional disorder. That is, a mental illness that involves one or more non-bizarre delusions with the absence of any other psychopathology (signs or symptoms of mental illness).
Common paranoid delusions may include the belief that the person is being followed, poisoned or loved at a distance (often by a media figure or important person, a delusion known as erotomania or De Clerambault syndrome). Other common paranoid delusions include the belief that the person has an imaginary disease or parasitic infection (delusional parasitosis), that the person is on a special quest or has been chosen by God, that the person has had thoughts inserted or removed from conscious thought or that the person's actions are being controlled by an external force (see mind control).
Paranoia is often associated with psychotic illnesses, particularly schizophrenia.
Many despotic rulers (for example Stalin) allegedly suffered from paranoia. This presents an interesting question because in Stalin's case, it is quite likely that many people really were out to get him (some theories state he was finally poisoned). Might it be that with enough enemies, it is impossible to be clinically paranoid? This begs interesting philosophical questions about the criteria by which we can diagnose a belief as paranoid or delusional.
See also: delusion, delusional disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia, Paranoia (game)
Further Reading
- Munro, A. (1999) Delusional disorder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052158180X
- Sims, A. (1995) Symptoms in the mind: An introduction to descriptive psychopathology. Edinburgh: Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0702026271
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Paranoia."
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Paranoid is the breakthrough album by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in January of 1971 (see 1971 in music); it soon topped the British music charts. Widely regarded as one of the pioneering recordings in heavy metal, the album established some of the conventions of the genre.
Paranoid peaked at #12 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart (North America). The singles "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" peaked at #61 and #52, respectively, on the Pop singles chart.
Tracks
- "War Pigs/Luke's Wall" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 7:55
- "Paranoid" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 2:50
- "Planet Caravan" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 4:30
- "Iron Man" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 6:00
- "Electric Funeral" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 4:50
- "Hand of Doom" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 7:10
- "Rat Salad" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 2:30
- "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - 6:15
Personnel
- Ozzy Osbourne - Harmonica, Vocals
- Tom (Colonel) Allom - Engineer
- Rodger Bain - Producer
- Geezer Butler - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
- Brian Humphries - Engineer
- Tony Iommi - Guitar
- Bill Ward - Drums, Vocals
- Keef - Design, Photography, Cover Design
- Tony Allom - Engineer
- Bill Ward - Drums
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Paranoid (album)."
Synonym: ParanoidSynonym: paranoiac (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Paranoid |
| Specialty definitions using "paranoid": Hallucinogens ♦ Paranoid Behavior, paranoid programming, professional programming ♦ Schizotypal Personality Disorder. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Paranoid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (paranoid), Hungarian (paranoid), Romanian (paranoid), Swedish (paranoiac, paranoid). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes I was saying that we're dealing with a middle-of-the-night personality with possible paranoid schizo (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) Neurotic, paranoid, totally inadequate, completely insecure (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Call me paranoid but I don't trust spiders, I don't trust Predacons and I don't trust dames who sneak in and out of classified areas when they think that nobody is watching (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Well sometimes Piccolouh a little on the paranoid side (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) You're getting paranoid. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
Lyrics | If you're paranoid (Kiss Kiss; performing artist: Stella Soleil) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Paranoid (2000) | |
Song Titles | Marvin I Love You (performing artist: Marvin The Paranoid Android) | |
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Henry Kissinger | Even a paranoid can have enemies. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Oh, the Paranoid Android, he said |
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Health | Smoking crack cocaine can produce a particularly aggressive paranoid behavior in users. (references) | |
Yes. Some users, especially someone new to the drug or in a strange setting, may suffer acute anxiety and have paranoid thoughts. (references) | ||
This may result in a full-blown paranoid psychosis, in which the individual loses touch with reality and experiences auditory hallucinations. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Jamaica | In August 1999, nine soldiers and four policemen severely beat Michael Gayle, described as a paranoid schizophrenic, after he tried to pass through a roadblock near his home after curfew. (references) |
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| "Paranoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.19% of the time. "Paranoid" is used about 221 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.19% | 217 | 20,530 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 221 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "paranoid": paranoid about ♦ Paranoid Behavior ♦ Paranoid Disorders ♦ Paranoid Personality Disorder ♦ paranoid programming ♦ paranoid schizophrenia ♦ Shared Paranoid Disorder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "paranoid": paranoid-schizoid, paranoid-schizophrenic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "paranoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paranojak (paranoiac), mosbesues (distrustful, incredulous, mistrustful, sceptical, unbelieving). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجنون بالشك, مريض بجنون العظمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | параноид. (various references) | |
Chinese | 偏执. (various references) | |
Czech | pomatený (deranged, distempered, haywire, moonstruck, moony, out of one's mind, perplexed, scatter-brained, unbalanced), paranoidní. (various references) | |
Danish | paranoid schizofreni (paranoid schizophrenia, paranoid type of schizophrenia), paranoid reaktion (paranoid reaction), paranoid psykose (delirium of persecution, delusion of being influenced, paranoia, paranoid schizophrenia), paranoid psykopat (paranoid personality), paranoid karakter (paranoid character), paranoid amenti (paranoid amentia). (various references) | |
Dutch | paranoïde. (various references) | |
Esperanto | paranoja. (various references) | |
Finnish | paranoia (paranoid schizophrenia), harhaluuloisuushäiriö (paranoid schizophrenia), harhaluuloisuus (paranoid schizophrenia). (various references) | |
French | paranoïde. (various references) | |
German | paranoid. (various references) | |
Greek | παρανοϊκός (paranoiac, paranoic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paranoiás (paranoiac). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gila ketakutan. (various references) | |
Italian | paranoide, paranoico (paranoiac). (various references) | |
Korean | 편집성. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aranoidpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paranóia (paranoia). (various references) | |
Romanian | paranoid. (various references) | |
Russian | параноический, параноидальный (paranoiac). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paranoidan. (various references) | |
Spanish | paranoico (paranoiac). (various references) | |
Swedish | paranoid (paranoiac). (various references) | |
Turkish | paranoya ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | параноїк (paranoiac), параноїдний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "paranoid": paranoidal, paranoids. (additional references) | |
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"Paranoid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arkanoid, berenzoid, calanoid, Palanji, paradoi, paraloid, paraniod, paranoi, paranoic, paranoidly, paranoie, paranois, paranoyd, Pararnali, Parayno, Parenzo, parinoid, parnoid, paronoid, peranoid, peruano, pianocide, Pironio, Prariond. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "paranoid" (pronounced pe"runoy'd) |
| 4 | -u n oy' d | adenoid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: padroni, pandora, poniard. | |
-2 letters: anopia, inroad, ordain, pardon, parian, pirana, radian. | |
-3 letters: adorn, apian, apron, aroid, danio, dinar, drain, nadir, naiad, naira, noria, orpin, padri, panda, pardi, piano, podia, poind, prion, radio, radon, ranid, rapid. | |
-4 letters: airn, anoa, apod, aria, arid, darn, dona, dopa, dorp, drip, drop, inro, iron, nada, naoi, nard, nipa, nodi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: paranoids. | |
+2 letters: paranoidal. | |
+3 letters: caparisoned, depravation, madreporian. | |
+4 letters: antipredator, clapboarding, depravations, deuteranopia, endoparasite, madreporians, paradropping, postprandial, propagandist, propagandize, quadraphonic. | |
+5 letters: anaphrodisiac, antipredators, deuteranopias, endoparasites, endoparasitic, preadaptation, propagandists, propagandized, propagandizer, propagandizes, prostaglandin, quadraphonics, radiographing. | |
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