0 the worry that people are thinking or saying negative things about you -- paranoia [ masculine ]
Their whispering just increased her paranoia. Hviskingen deres bare forsterket paranoiaen hennes.
1 a severe medical condition in which sb believes people are trying to harm them -- paranoia [ masculine ]
2 a type of mental illness in which a person has fixed and unreasonable ideas that he is very important, or that other people are being unfair or unfriendly to him. -- paranoia