Definition of Paranoic

1. a paranoid [n -S] - See also: paranoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paranoic

paraneurone
parang
parangi
parangs
paranitraniline red
paranitraniline reds
paranodin
paranoea
paranoeas
paranoia
paranoia originaria
paranoiac
paranoiacs
paranoialike
paranoias
paranoic (current term)
paranoic type schizophrenia
paranoically
paranoics
paranoid
paranoid behaviour
paranoid disorder
paranoid disorders
paranoid personality
paranoid personality disorder
paranoid schizophrenia
paranoidal
paranoidly
paranoids
paranomasia

Literary usage of Paranoic

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

1. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"paranoic states are transformations of the personality in which reason appears ... Paranoid states are those resembling the paranoic transformations but ..."

2. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"Fixed and systematized delusions are the essence of paranoic and paranoid states. ... paranoic states are transformations of the personality in which reason ..."

3. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"(c) The paranoic Delusions of Persecution. At first and in the mildest form these appear as attention (Neisser) or relation delusions. ..."

4. Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane by American Psychiatric Association (1918)
"Paranoia or paranoic Conditions From this group should be excluded the deteriorating para- noic states and paranoia states symptomatic of other mental ..."

5. 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 (1914)
"In two instances, manic depressive insanity was associated with paranoic states; in one of these a paranoic condition, without deterioration, the paranoic ..."

6. Psychiatric-neurologic Examination Methods: With Special Reference to the by August Wimmer (1919)
"The paranoic delusions developing at (a) the presenile age are usually also quite ... In alcoholic paranoic states an acute or subacute hallucinatory ..."

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