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the conviction that the universe organized a meeting and you weren't invited but you're the topic.
means An irrational and persistent feeling that others are out to harm, deceive, or conspire against you, often without real evidence.
from From Greek paranoia, meaning 'madness' or 'derangement' — literally a mind (nous) gone alongside or beside (para-) itself. The Greeks used it broadly for being out of one's mind; it was revived by 19th-century psychiatry, especially in German medicine, to name a specific delusional disorder, narrowing 'madness in general' into 'the particular madness of believing they're all after you.'
survival edgeAnxious early humans heard predators others ignored
clinical lineIt's delusion only when no one's actually after you
word originGreek for a mind beside itself
crowd effectShared paranoia builds cults, panics, and conspiracies