paranoia
noun /ˌpærəˈnɔɪə/
/ˌpærəˈnɔɪə/
[uncountable]- (medical
) a mental illness in which a person wrongly believes that other people are trying to harm them, that they are somebody very important, etc.医学 偏执狂;妄想症 - The drugs can induce paranoia.
这些药物会诱发偏执。
Wordfinder- anorexia
- autism
- bipolar disorder
- condition
- dementia
- depression
- paranoia
- psychosis
- schizophrenia
Topics Illnessc2- He 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。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rampant
- extreme
- severe
- …
- suffer from
- border on
- verge on
- …
- kick in
- set in
- grip somebody
- …
- The drugs can induce paranoia.
- (informal) fear of other people when there is no evidence or reason for this
(对别人的)无端恐惧,多疑 Topics Feelingsc2- External 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
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rampant
- extreme
- severe
- …
- suffer from
- border on
- verge on
- …
- kick in
- set in
- grip somebody
- …
- External threats will just fuel paranoia among those in power.
词源early 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, from paranoos ‘distracted’, from para ‘irregular’ + noos ‘mind’.