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    [Noun]  | "para*noia" | \ ˌper-ə-ˈnȯi-ə \


    1: mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations

    2: a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others


    Origin: 1887 ;

     New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind;

    [Noun]  | "paranoia" 


    1: a feeling that one does not know the whole truth or that someone else is not being truthful;


      * e.g., " ... Each half of the unhappy couple was constantly wracked with paranoia that the other was cheating. "





     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: No chance I'm gonna give a definition.. What if someone's watching? :o

      * e.g.,  ... I must be paranoid, I keep looking over my back for th.. AAAAHHHH!!!!!! 


     [ "paranoia" ]

    2: /me dons ninja mask

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: Believing that everyone is out to get you.

      * e.g.,  ... Although it is true that everyone IS out to get you, such as the government and stalkers. 

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: Pretending to wash your hands when nobody else is even in the men's room.

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    1: When you do something naughty about 1-7 meters away from a teacher, depending on the circumstance, and you have no idea if they saw/heard you. It’s like paranoid schizophrenia on crack. You want to turn around and see if they saw. But you can’t. You're just stuck there, frozen. Your mates are telling you "sir is behind you!" and you’re just thinking about the punishment from this. You think about all your life choices leading up to this very situation. Then your heart sinks and you feel butterflies. Nearly fainting, you awkwardly, anonymously walk away slowly. He didn’t see you. You know he didn’t. But we do this anyway.

      * e.g.,  ... Jamal: fuck Jimmy: bro miss yeet is behind you Jamal: *extreme paranoia* Jimmy: bro he's a gonner. Hes got paranoia. No coming from that now. Can we get an F in the chat for Jamal there. 

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: A disease that afflicts me and made me think for 3 years of my life that my left leg was longer than my right leg. Every time my phone rings I think it is the FBI. And every time my doorbell rings I think it is a giant purple dinosaurs that eats children.

      * e.g.,  ... Person: "William, why are you in the fetal position under your bed?" 

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.

      * e.g.,  ... people with paranoia are uselessly suspicious of others 

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: Paranoia is realising that humanity is eating itself and you are just the starter.

      * e.g.,  ... All those fat cats licking their lips... 

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: a wellknown series of songs enlisted in the "dance dance revolution" collection. each song is typically known for their unpredictable steps and their rather high tempos; the original paranoia mix clocks in at 180 bpm, while the paranoia survivor max mix flows at a blistering 290 beats per minute.

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: Having a memory involving something dark and repressed and sweating profusely whilst you wonder just who else knows.

      * e.g.,  ... Paranoid psychosis, a.k.a. 3 joints too quickly. 


     [ "paranoia" ]

    2: A free floating fear or anxiety that will latch onto just about anything.

     [ "paranoia" ]

    1: The uneasy feeling you get when dogs start shouting "Poof" at you, and cars racing through puddles shout "Twat" - (British slang for female genitalia)

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