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From Longman Dictionary

par‧a‧noi‧a /ˌpærəˈnɔɪə/ noun [uncountable]

an unreasonable belief that you cannot trust other people, or that they are trying to harm you or have a bad opinion of you

a mental illness that makes someone believe that they are very important and that people hate them and are trying to harm them

Example

Was it paranoia or could she really feel some one closing in on her

If she mentioned paranoia, Buzz would insist that Elinor was the victim of a lot of quacks

Douglas also developed some mild paranoia that, in a president, might have had far more serious consequences

He had looked and sounded alone, and inadvertently given the impression of paranoia

It seemed possible that Soviet paranoia could spark a war at any time