Synonyms for paranoia
ˌpær əˈnɔɪ əpara·noia

Princeton's WordNet

1. paranoianoun

   a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

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1. • Psychosis

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1. panophobia

   it's pretty close in meaning

   her paranoia made her afraid of nearly everything.

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. William S. Burroughs:

   Paranoia means having all the facts.

2. Timothy Kaldas:

   There is a high level of paranoia on the part of the government. It is an inadvertent admission that there have been a number of failures.

3. Margaret Boddie:

   A lot of Black elders in this area migrated from the South a long time ago and were victims of a lot of racist practices growing up, with the pandemic, they're fearful of outsiders coming in and trying to tell them how to think and how to be. They think they're being targeted. There's a lot of paranoia.

4. Joan Didion:

   Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

5. Patricia Arquette:

   This has put me over the top of paranoia to a whole other level.