Paranoiac vs. Paranoia — What's the Difference?

A paranoid.

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process which is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (i.e.

Of, relating to, or resembling paranoia.

Irrational distrust or suspicion of others, especially as occurring in people with psychiatric disorders such as paranoid personality disorder and schizophrenia

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, paranoia.

Intense anxiety or worry

Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person.

The obsolete name for a psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of 6 subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others

Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia; paranoid.

Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

A person affected with paranoia.

A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.

A person afflicted with paranoia

Unwarranted suspicion of the motives of others; - used colloquially in a non-technical sense.

A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur