PARANOIA
\pˈaɹənˌɔ͡ɪə], \pˈaɹənˌɔɪə], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ə_n_ˌɔɪ_ə]\
Definitions of PARANOIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
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A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
By Noah Webster.
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Chronic mental disorders in which there has been an insidious development of a permanent and unshakeable delusional system (persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy), accompanied by preservation of clear and orderly thinking. Emotional responses and behavior are consistent with the delusional state.
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By William R. Warner
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the name that is given to the form of mental illness that is characterised by hallucinations, delusions and feeling of being persecuted.
By Henry Campbell Black
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A term applied loosely to various mental diseases limited to a small group by Kraepelin of slowly progressive, non-dementiary delusional psychoses. [Gr.]
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Chronic delusional psychosis. A functional psychosis, starting from a degenerative condition. It is almost always accompanied with hallucinations and more or less systematized delusions. The course is neither continuous nor uniform, but is essentially chronic, [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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