paranoia

英 [ˌpærəˈnɔɪə]

美 [ˌpærəˈnɔɪə]

n.  妄想症; 偏执狂; (对别人的)无端恐惧，多疑

复数：paranoias　

IELTSGRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.14765 / COCA.10527

牛津词典

noun

• 妄想症；偏执狂
  a mental illness in which a person may wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm them, that they are sb very important, etc.
• （对别人的）无端恐惧，多疑
  fear or suspicion of other people when there is no evidence or reason for this

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 疑惧；多疑
  If you say that someone suffers fromparanoia, you think that they are too suspicious and afraid of other people.
  1. The mood is one of paranoia and expectation of war.
     那是一种对战争既畏惧又期待的心理。
  2. ...the mounting paranoia with which he viewed the world around him.
     他看待周围世界时越来越重的疑惧心理
• 偏执狂；妄想症
  In psychology, if someone suffers fromparanoia, they wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm them, or believe themselves to be much more important than they really are.

英英释义

noun

• a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

双语例句

• Paranoia is far more common in the general population than previously thought, a new study shows.
  根据一项新的研究表明，在普通人中偏执狂比先前认为的要更普遍。
• Sometimes, the result of extreme paranoia is a phobia.
  有时，这种极度偏执狂的结果便是恐怖症。
• Their psychological problems mainly are concentrated in depression, mood-swings and paranoia.
  一类学生的心理问题主要集中在抑郁、情绪波动和偏执三个方面。
• The findings are important because paranoia is generally thought to be a symptom of severe mental illness.
  研究获得了很重要的发现，因为通常偏执狂被认为是一种严重精神疾病的症状。
• Last year the ECB fell behind the curve because of inflation paranoia in Germany.
  去年，由于德国患上通胀妄想症，欧洲央行的表现落后于曲线。
• But ah, you hear Mr Putin's apologists say, the west fed Russian paranoia.
  但是，啊哈，你听到为普京辩护的人说，是西方国家加重了俄罗斯的疑心。
• We should all have this level of paranoia about input to our programs.
  我们大家都应该对我们的程序也有对输入这样的偏执。
• I recommend their company rather than listening to the exaggerated paranoia of the media misanthropes.
  我建议你与他们为伴，而不要去听媒体上的厌世者那些夸张的悲观妄想。
• The push for reform is also motivated by political paranoia.
  竞选的改革运动也受到政治偏执狂症的推动。
• Oppositional defiance disorder and paranoia is what I read.
  我读到的是对抗型挑衅和妄想狂。