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Synonyms & Antonyms of paranoia
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.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for paranoia
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- doubt,
- dubiety,
- dubitation
- [archaic],
- incertitude,
- misdoubt,
- misgiving,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- query,
- reservation,
- skepticism,
- suspicion,
- uncertainty
- compunction,
- niggle
- [chiefly British],
- qualm,
- scruple,
- tremor
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“Paranoia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paranoia. Accessed 18 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of paranoia was in 1887
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