Synonyms of paranoia

paranoia

noun

as in anxiety

a feeling that one does not know the whole truth or that someone else is not being truthful

Each half of the unhappy couple was constantly wracked with paranoia that the other was cheating.

Related Words

• anxiety
• concern
• suspicion
• disbelief
• doubt
• wariness
• uncertainty
• incredulity
• distrust
• mistrust
• skepticism
• unbelief
• tremor
• incertitude
• reservation
• qualm
• misgiving
• dubiety
• compunction
• dubitation
• mistrustfulness
• query
• distrustfulness
• misdoubt
• scruple
• niggle

Dissimilar Words

• belief
• trust
• confidence
• conviction
• certainty
• assurance
• surety
• faith
• certitude
• sureness
• credence

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of paranoia

There's a lot of medical paranoia right now in the post-COVID age, which makes Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects more relevant than ever. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026

American fear of a Polish-style partition was more than paranoia. — David Armitage, Washington Post, 26 June 2026

Of course, this is Interpol, so paranoia and discontent lurk around every street corner. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026

More prestigious films continued to wrestle with the paranoia of the Nixon era. — ABC News, 13 June 2026