paranoid has definitions from the fields of medicine,psychology
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[ adjective ] suffering from paranoia

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

Another patient , a paranoid woman , for many months infuriated not_only me but the ward personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building , as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met .

Recently , for_example , a paranoid woman 's large-scale philosophizing , in the session , about the intrusive curiosity which has become , in her opinion , a deplorable characteristic of mid twentieth century human culture , developed itself , before the end of the session , into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast , as indeed I was .

Related terms

insane

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[ noun ] (medicine,psychology) a person afflicted with paranoia

Synonyms

paranoiac

Related terms

psychotic

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