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Definition of Paranoiac

1. Noun. A person afflicted with paranoia.

Definition of Paranoiac

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

2. n. A person affected with paranoia.

Definition of Paranoiac

1. Adjective. Pertaining to (paranoia). ¹

2. Noun. Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paranoiac

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Medical Definition of Paranoiac

1. 1. Relating to or affected with paranoia. 2. One who is suffering from paranoia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paranoiac

Literary usage of Paranoiac

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"AN INCHOATIVE paranoiac.1 BY MARTIN W. BARR, MD, Chief Physician, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, Elwyn, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"AN INCHOATIVE paranoiac.1 BY MARTIN W. BARR, MD, Chief Physician, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, Elwyn, Delaware County, Pa, ..."

3. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"CARLO Is. OF ROME, RELIGIOUS paranoiac. Abolition of private property, which would devolve to the State, the State providing for the necessities of each ..."

4. The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports by Ohio Courts (1918)
"In reply to a question put to the doctor' by defendant's counsel as to whether or not a paranoiac could relate matters of injury or persecution to another ..."

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