The act of increasing levels of Paranoia to a higher state. The active verb form of the word paranoia.
Paranoy / Paranoying:
The thought of the police officer is paranoying me, even though I haven't done anything wrong.
That paranoys me, stop! This is making me paranoid.
The thought of the police officer is paranoying me, even though I haven't done anything wrong.
That paranoys me, stop! This is making me paranoid.
by TadachiiRyu August 10, 2025
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Examples: Canon Busters, Castlevania, Devil may cry (Netflix series), Lord of Mysteries
In short:
Anime’s twin that grew up outside Japan.
Personal note:
Coined as a universal term to clearly separate anime (Japanese animation) from anime-inspired works made in other countries. “Paranime” comes from para- (parallel) + anime, meaning it runs alongside anime without being the same.
Examples: Canon Busters, Castlevania, Devil may cry (Netflix series), Lord of Mysteries
In short:
Anime’s twin that grew up outside Japan.
Personal note:
Coined as a universal term to clearly separate anime (Japanese animation) from anime-inspired works made in other countries. “Paranime” comes from para- (parallel) + anime, meaning it runs alongside anime without being the same.
Friend: “Bro, Castlevania is the best anime ever.”
Me: “It can’t, because it’s not even an anime—it’s paranime.”
Me: “It can’t, because it’s not even an anime—it’s paranime.”
by UmbrellaReviewer37 September 5, 2025
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noun /ˈpærəˌnoʊm/
Etymology:
From para- (“beside, beyond”) + -nome (evoking metronome, gnome, and norm)
A principle, condition, or agent in which each individual acknowledges a shared rule but claims personal exemption from it. The rule persists, but its authority dissolves through universal exceptionality. The paranome is the norm that no one fully obeys; each participant bends it inward, ticking to their own logic while still orbiting its presence.
Etymology:
From para- (“beside, beyond”) + -nome (evoking metronome, gnome, and norm)
A principle, condition, or agent in which each individual acknowledges a shared rule but claims personal exemption from it. The rule persists, but its authority dissolves through universal exceptionality. The paranome is the norm that no one fully obeys; each participant bends it inward, ticking to their own logic while still orbiting its presence.
You can't truly reason with anybody, because they never see themselves as wrong, clearly their own exception to the rule. Society is one tangled chaotic mess of a silent paranome.
by Starcode November 1, 2025
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"He was knackered and had a post-parandial pie, you'll see him tomorrow."
"He was knackered and had a post-parandial pie, you'll see him tomorrow."
by VetBoy05! June 27, 2022
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Barney paranormal park:I'm trans normally and everyone at school knows and everyone at home knows and being here is like a whole new place
by Banana97 July 31, 2022
Get the Barney paranormal park mug.Similar to supernaturality, but focused on the persistent, anecdotal reports of phenomena (ESP, psychokinesis, hauntings) that defy conventional explanation but consistently fail to manifest reliably under controlled conditions. The "hard problem" is the elusiveness: the phenomena appear tied to subjective states, belief, or ambiguous settings, evaporating under the harsh, skeptical light of a lab. This makes it impossible to determine if we're studying fragile real effects or the psychology of perception and error.
*Example: "The psychic was 80% accurate in cozy readings, but scored exactly chance in the double-blind lab test. The hard problem of paranormality: does the lab's sterile skepticism somehow 'turn off' the ability, or does the cozy setting simply create an illusion of accuracy through cold reading and confirmation bias? The effect is married to the ambiguity."*
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Hard Problem of Paranormality mug.The theory that paranormal phenomena exist on a spectrum, not as a binary category. The Paranormal Spectrum recognizes that claims about ghosts, UFOs, ESP, and the like vary enormously in their content, plausibility, and relationship to normal explanation. A ghost sighting that could be a misperception is on one end; a UFO encounter with physical evidence is on another. The spectrum allows for distinguishing between different kinds and degrees of paranormal claims, for evaluating them on multiple dimensions rather than simply accepting or rejecting them wholesale. It's the framework for thinking clearly about things that may exceed normal explanation without assuming they're all equally implausible.
Example: "He dismissed all paranormal claims as equally ridiculous. The Theory of the Paranormal Spectrum showed why that was crude: a ghost story told by one person was different from multiple-witness UFO sightings with radar data—different evidence, different plausibility, different relationship to normal explanation. The spectrum let him evaluate, not just dismiss."
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