n .
a mental illness in which the sufferer believes people are out to get him ; unreasonable anxiety 다른 사람들이 자신을 괴롭히려 한다고 생각하는 정신질환, 편집증 ; 합리적이지 못한 걱정, 망상

• Margaret's paranoia has increased to the point where she won't even set foot out of the house because she is afraid that the people walking by are foreign agents on a mission to assassinate her.
  마가렛의 편집증은 집 밖으로는 한 발짝도 나가지 않으려는 지경에까지 이르렀다. 거리에서 스쳐 지나가는 사람들이 자신을 암살하는 임무를 띠고 온 외국의 스파이라고 두려워하기 때문이다.
• Worrying that one is going to die someday is not paranoia ; it's just worrying, since one really is going to die someday.
• 형용사는 paranoid 로, 엄밀하게 의학적인 뜻으로 쓰인다기보다 흔히 비유적인 뜻으로 사용된다.
• When Harry told Sally that she was paranoid to believe her dinner guests hated her cooking, he didn't mean she was mentally ill ; he meant that she was worrying needlessly.