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A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
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Meaning of "paranoiac" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARANOIAC

paranoiac  [ˌpærəˈnɔɪɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARANOIAC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paranoiac is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PARANOIAC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Paranoia

Paranoia /ˌpærəˈnɔɪə/ is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Paranoia is distinct from phobias, which also involve irrational fear, but usually no blame. Making false accusations and the general distrust of others also frequently accompany paranoia. For example, an incident most people would view as an accident or coincidence, a paranoid person might believe was intentional.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARANOIAC


algebraic
ˌældʒɪˈbreɪɪk
allogeneic
ˈælədʒəˌneɪɪk
Altaic
ælˈteɪɪk
apotropaic
ˌæpəʊtrəˈpeɪɪk
Aramaic
ˌærəˈmeɪɪk
archaic
ɑːˈkeɪɪk
deltaic
delˈteɪɪk
formulaic
ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪɪk
Hebraic
hɪˈbreɪɪk
Judaic
dʒuːˈdeɪɪk
laic
ˈleɪɪk
maleic
məˈleɪɪk
mosaic
məˈzeɪɪk
paranoic
ˌpærəˈnɔɪɪk
photomosaic
ˌfəʊtəʊməˈzeɪɪk
photovoltaic
ˌfəʊtəʊvɒlˈteɪɪk
prosaic
prəʊˈzeɪɪk
Ptolemaic
ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪɪk
voltaic
vɒlˈteɪɪk
xenogeneic
ˌzɛnəʊdʒɪˈneɪɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARANOIAC

paramylum
paramyxovirus
parancenteses
paranephric
paranephros
paranete
parang
paranoia
paranoic
paranoically
paranoid
paranoidal
paranormal
paranormality
paranormally
paranthelia
paranthelion
paranthropus
paranym
paranymph

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARANOIAC

aphrodisiac
brainiac
cardiac
celiac
egomaniac
guaiac
iliac
insomniac
intracardiac
kleptomaniac
maniac
Mauriac
necrophiliac
nymphomaniac
paradisiac
sex maniac
sign of the zodiac
Syriac
triac
zodiac

Synonyms and antonyms of paranoiac in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paranoiac» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARANOIAC

Find out the translation of paranoiac to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of paranoiac from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «paranoiac» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偏执狂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paranoico
570 millions of speakers

English

paranoiac
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paranoiac
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المذعور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

параноик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paranóico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রম-বাতুলতাগ্রস্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paranoïaque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paranoiac
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Paranoiker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パラノイアック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

편집증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paranoiac
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paranoiac
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சித்தப்பிரமை சார்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मनगट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paranoyak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paranoico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paranoik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

параноїк
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paranoic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρανοϊκή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paranoide
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paranoiac
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paranoide
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about paranoiac

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3 QUOTES WITH «PARANOIAC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word paranoiac.
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Luis Bunuel
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
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Elias Canetti
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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Amelie Nothomb
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARANOIAC»

Discover the use of paranoiac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paranoiac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oscar Montague Paranoiac...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George Lincoln Walton, M.D., 2012
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Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory
formation of ego and the image of body dependent on the image of the Other, the double, gives rise to two correlative tendencies which are the essence of ego: narcissistic love and paranoiac aggression. The Other's image attracts and repels  ...
Alice Jan Poust, 2001
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Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America
One discourse through which anti-Communist popular culture ar- tifacts are often viewed is paranoia.1 It is a commonplace to associate post-World War II America with paranoiac fantasy. And while debate continues as to whether the American ...
Cyndy Hendershot, 2002
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Treating Attachment Pathology
THE DESIRE NOT TO KNOW Human knowledge is paranoiac — it torments, persecutes, cuts. This is essentially what Lacan (1953-1954) means when he says, "My knowledge started off from paranoiac knowledge" (163), because there are ...
Jon Mills, 2005
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Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce
meaning, and the subsequent disruption of the interpretive attempt to control and possess language, is thus answered, in Joyce's parody, by a paranoiac insistence on absolute control. But such radical gestures break with the more rhythmic ...
Christy L. Burns, 2000
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Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art
The way this links with the accidental image is illustrated by the 'paranoiac face' published at the end of 1931 in Le surrealisme au service de la revolution (illus. 163), which is unusual for Dali in that it uses the sort of reversal we have ...
Dario Gamboni, 2002
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Arts-Based Research: A Critique and a Proposal
As in its clinical application, this paranoiac limit point palpates a transcendent image that preserves the conditions of meaning itself. Beyond this world, the paranoiac insists on a world of higher and more profound meaning. It is in this vein that ...
Jan Jagodzinski, Jason Wallin, 2013
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The Work of Psychic Figurability: Mental States Without ...
Paranoiac clinging to the real object In 1922, Freud described paranoiacs as people who 'expect from all strangers something like love' (Freud, 1922B: S.E. XVIII, 226). Among other authors, Racamier has shown (1966) how the paranoiac has ...
César Botella, Sara Botella, 2005
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Dali and Postmodernism: This Is Not an Essence
This paranoiac activity is the genesis of (at least) double images. Through a fearless continuation of the paranoiac advance, multiple images are made to appear. The "violent" disparity and lack of interpenetration between reality and images ...
Marc J. LaFountain, 1997
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Extracts from the autobiography of a paranoiac
From what I have recently learned regarding him, he also was something of a paranoiac. They strove to bring up their children carefully and educate them as well as possible. Concerning their inculcations in his youth, he says : "My early ...
Frederick Peterson, 1889

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARANOIAC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paranoiac is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sandra Bland's American tragedy: How a country's vicious history …
(See the repeated use of similar language by Republicans and the right-wing media to delegitimate Barack Obama.) The white racial paranoiac ... «Salon, Jul 15»
2
Making the Irish sexy: Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope …
And The Landleaguers shows an almost paranoiac distaste for all that Parnell had brought into politics. This was in spite of Trollope's early ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
3
JFK visited Ireland for the first time 70 years ago today
“Mr. Gray's opinion of de Valera was that he was sincere, incorruptible, also a paranoiac and a lunatic,” Kennedy wrote in his diary. According ... «IrishCentral, Jul 15»
4
EL Doctorow was an ideal public intellectual
What sets him apart from his paranoiac mid-century peers — Pynchon, DeLillo, Coover — was his belief that massive organizations could ... «National Post, Jul 15»
5
JFK in Ireland: The early visits of a future US president
“Mr Gray's opinion of de Valera was that he was sincere, incorruptible, also a paranoiac and a lunatic,” the future US president noted in his ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
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Google Introduces New 'Your Timeline' Feature for Google Maps
Downright paranoiac users have an option, too; they can opt out of this feature by turning off the location tracker. Image source: slashgear.com. «Mirror Daily, Jul 15»
7
Is Xi Jinping Losing Control of China?
Highly paranoiac and increasingly retributive, President Xi Jinping's Beijing doesn't inspire confidence—not among the Chinese people, and ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
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On Topic: Remind me again
In any case, it turns out I wasn't even close to being the first to raise a slightly paranoiac red flag about the shadowy paths down which complete ... «The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines, Jul 15»
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When another's ideas cease to be tolerable
Some experts maintain that, paranoiac though this might sound, the risk is real. “We don't want to be known as Christians fighting with the ... «Evangelical Focus, Jul 15»
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How a bizarre bomb-defusing game hides an object lesson in …
It's a paranoiac's nightmare, but it's also a lesson in how to keep paranoia at bay. No matter where or when you encounter exploding danger, ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»

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