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paranoia

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paranoia noun delusional insanity, delusions, dissased mind, disordered reason, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, mental aberration, mental disease, phobia, unreaaonable fear, unreasonable fright
See also: insanity
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Paranoia is gaining steam and people are going as far as disarming Onstar themselves to ward off evil big brother.
Onstar - Is Big Brother Watching You? by Scott Kavanagh / Automotive community
I would love to see us compete and don't get his paranoia that FIFA is waiting for a chance to amalgamate the British nations into one.
Letter: Your view - C'mon the GB by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that "racial paranoia isn't about seeing racism where it doesn't exist" but rather acts as "a rudimentary and imperfect recognition that spotting racism at all these days demands new ways of seeing altogether" Since racism has gone underground, Jackson maintains, paranoia has become an effective, if imperfect, means of identifying it.
A transformation on race: Barack Obama's "post-racial" posture ... by Moynihan, Michael C. / Reason
 
 
 
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