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paranoid state

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paranoid state [′par·ə‚nȯid ¦stāt]
(psychology)
Any of various psychotic disorders in which the patient exhibits persistent delusions, usually of persecution or grandeur.


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The other considers this to be a completely paranoid state of affairs.
A paranoid state will sign treaties; it will present a smiling face like the faces of Hitler at Munich and Stalin at Yalta; it will indignantly protest whenever some minute obligation undertaken by others seems to have been neglected.
This tense FA Cup tie tiptoed through an almost paranoid state into the unbearable tension of an extra period, with both sides almost as nervous as the fans.
 
 
 
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