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paraˈnoiac, a. and n. 9 paraˈnœac. a. adj. Afflicted with paranoia; b. n. A paranoiac person.
1892Review of Rev. 15 July 56/1 The select portion of the paranoiac race. Ibid., The paranoiac suffers from a steady degeneration of the brain through hallucinations and delusions towards the delusion of grandeur. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 399 The paranoiac is the victim of foul wrong, he is proud, defiant, and self-centred. 1902[see association 9]. 1914A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Psychopathol. Everyday Life xii. 309 The gap between the paranoiac's displacement and that of superstition is narrower than appears at first sight. 1935D. Gascoyne Short Survey Surrealism v. 102 Dali claims that it is the paranoiac faculty that enables him to discover a head where there was, until he looked at it, only an African village. 1937Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXVII. 245 It has frequently been suggested that those who come much in contact with paranoiacs tend themselves in time to exhibit paranoid symptoms. 1952A. Huxley Let. 20 May (1969) 645 Boastful in an altogether childish way, mildly paranoiac, but well-meaning. 1977A. Sheridan tr. Lacan's Écrits i. 3 The social dialectic that structures human knowledge as paranoiac. 1978J. Blackburn Dead Man's Handle i. 20 Paranoiacs and schizophrenics like George Heath and Neville Haigh, and the Boston Strangler. Hence paraˈnoiacally adv., in a paranoiac manner.
1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vi. 213 He continued to build castles in the air,..paranoiacally refusing to face up to reality. 1976Listener 22 Apr. 505/1 The girl next door is already out there, doing her yoga and singing paranoiacally. |