Nostalgia vs Paranoia - What's the difference?
nostalgia | paranoia |
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution.
Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
???Paranoia''' ( mind.]?Mental derangement; ''spec.'' chronic mental unsoundness characterized by delusions or hallucinations, esp. of grandeur, persecution, etc.?[¶; 4 quots.: 1857, 1891, 1892, 1899; ¶]?Hence '''Paranoi·ac, -œ·ac,''' a. ''adj.'' afflicted with paranoia; b. ''sb.''; also '''Parano·ic, -nœ·ic ''a. ?[¶; 3 quots.: 1857, 1892, 1899 ----
As nouns the difference between nostalgia and paranoia
is that nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness while paranoia is a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution.nostalgia
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Noun
(en noun)This is the cutest article, passage= I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.}}
Derived terms
* nostalgic * nostalgicallySee also
* halcyon days * hark back * memory lane * reminiscence ----paranoia
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia paranoia) (en noun)Derived terms
* paranoiac * paranoic * paranoically * paranoid * paranoid schizophreniaReferences
* “?Paranoia, paranœa]” listed on page 460 of volume VII (O, P) of '' [1st ed., 1909]
???Paranoia''' ( mind.]?Mental derangement; ''spec.'' chronic mental unsoundness characterized by delusions or hallucinations, esp. of grandeur, persecution, etc.?[¶; 4 quots.: 1857, 1891, 1892, 1899; ¶]?Hence '''Paranoi·ac, -œ·ac,''' a. ''adj.'' afflicted with paranoia; b. ''sb.''; also '''Parano·ic, -nœ·ic ''a. ?[¶; 3 quots.: 1857, 1892, 1899 ----