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paranoia
English
Alternative forms
- paranœa, paranoea (obsolete, rare)
- paranoïa (rare)
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”), from ???????? (paránoos, “demented”), from ???? (pará, “beyond, beside”) + ???? (nóos, “mind, spirit”).
Surface analysis is para- (“abnormal, beyond”) +? nous (“mind”) +? -ia (“(medical) condition”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæ?.??n??.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??.??n??.?/
- Rhymes: -??.?
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?noia
Noun
paranoia (countable and uncountable, plural paranoias or (archaic) paranoiæ)
- A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, conspiracy and perceived threat against the person, often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others
- Antonym: pronoia
- Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
Derived terms
Related terms
- See: nous#Related terms
- See: para-#Derived terms
Translations
References
- “?Paranoia, paranœa” listed on page 460 of volume VII (O, P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1909]
???Paranoia (pær?noi·?), paranœa (-n?·?).?Path.?[mod.L. a. Gr. ????????, f. ??????-?? distracted, f. ????- beside + ??-??, ???? 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]
Catalan
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Noun
paranoia f (plural paranoies)
- paranoia
Related terms
- paranoic
Further reading
- “paranoia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?paranoja]
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?noia
Noun
paranoia f
- paranoia
- Synonym: stihomam
Declension
Related terms
- paranoidní
- paranoik
Further reading
- paranoia in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- paranoia in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Noun
paranoia
- paranoia
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?.ra??no?.ja?/
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?noia
Noun
paranoia f (uncountable)
- (psychology) paranoia
Related terms
- paranoïcus
- paranoïde
Adjective
paranoia (not comparable)
- (informal) paranoid
- Synonym: paranoïde
Hungarian
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?r?noj?]
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?no?ia
- Rhymes: -j?
Noun
paranoia
- (psychology) paranoia (a psychotic disorder)
Declension
Derived terms
- paranoiás
References
Further reading
- paranoia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Noun
paranoia f (plural paranoie)
- (psychology, figuratively) paranoia
Related terms
- paranoico
- paranoide
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- paranóia (obsolete form)
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”).
Noun
paranoia f (plural paranoias)
- paranoia (a psychotic disorder characterised by delusions of persecution)
Romanian
Etymology
From French paranoia
Noun
paranoia f (uncountable)
- paranoia
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (paránoia, “madness”). More at paranoia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?a?noja/, [pa.?a?no.ja]
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?no?ia
Noun
paranoia f (plural paranoias)
- paranoia
Derived terms
- paranoico
- paranoide
Further reading
- “paranoia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
paranoia From the web:
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eunoia
English
Alternative forms
- eunœa (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (eúnoia, “goodwill”, literally “well-mindedness”), from ?? (eû, “well, good”) + ???? (nóos, “mind, spirit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??n??.?/
Noun
eunoia (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.
- (medicine, psychology) A state of normal adult mental health.
- 1899, Editorial Comment: "A New Faculty and its Localization", Medicine 5: 584
- The author says if we translate this metopic or coronal curve into the language of psychology we have eunoia or prothymia.
- 1912, William Eastbrook Chancellor, "Temperment and the Education of Foreigners and of Their Children for American Citizenship", Educational Foundations 39 (1)
- We can usually tell which baby at three months old will never reach even imbecility, which child at three will never reach morinoia, habits of life, which boy or girl at six or seven will be arrested in morinoia and not proceed into eunoia.
- 1899, Editorial Comment: "A New Faculty and its Localization", Medicine 5: 584
Related terms
- morinoia
- paranoia
Translations
eunoia From the web:
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