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medical 医学 a mental illness in which a person wrongly believes that other people are trying to harm them, that they are somebody very important, etc. 偏执狂；妄想症 The drugs can induce paranoia. 这些药物会诱发偏执。
Extra ExamplesTopics Illnessc2He was gripped by paranoia. 他为偏执所累。 Her passion for cleanliness borders on paranoia. 她的洁癖近乎偏执。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rampant
- extreme
- severe
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- suffer from
- border on
- verge on
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- kick in
- set in
- grip somebody
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- (informal)
fear of other people when there is no evidence or reason for this （对别人的）无端恐惧，多疑 Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2External threats will just fuel paranoia among those in power. 外部威胁只会加剧当权者的偏执。 I was guilty perhaps of mild paranoia. 我为自己也许有点儿偏执而内疚。 The paranoia is setting in. 开始变得偏执。 The regime is in the grip of severe paranoia. 该政府处于严重的偏执狂的掌控之中。 the anti-communist paranoia of the 1950s 20 世纪 50 年代的反共狂潮 his paranoia that people might find out 他对人们可能会有所察觉的无端恐惧
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rampant
- extreme
- severe
- …
- suffer from
- border on
- verge on
- …
- kick in
- set in
- grip somebody
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, from paranoos ‘distracted’, from para ‘irregular’ + noos ‘mind’.