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Paranosy 

When a person is constantly eavesdropping your conversations (usually a significant other) because they have just done something sneaky and are afraid that you are going to find out from your friends, or they are worried that you are on some sneaky business. Usually people who are paranosy have done a lot of dirt in the past so they are projecting that on to others, or they have had a lot of dirt done to them and they are being hyper-vigilant. For example, they could be in the other room and hear you speaking on the phone and all of a sudden they are right next to you on the couch asking “who is that?” and nonchalantly “oh, what did they have to say?”. Or if you get a text they will try to position themselves so they can see what you are texting without actually grabbing your phone out of your hands to read it. Although there have been extreme cases of phone snatching, or sneak reading.
“Hey Jo I’m gonna call you back in a bit, Billy is being paranosy. Your secrets aren’t safe right now”
Oh my God Billy what have you done now? Why are you being so paranosy? What are you afraid that I am going to find out?”
Paranosy by ShadyEmilioRodriquez September 25, 2021
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Paranostalgia 

Grief over the loss of person/place/time period never experienced and (probably) romanticized.
I once came across a photo of some glamorous New Wave kids standing outside a club in 1980s London and I felt an acute sense of paranostalgia.
Sometimes I feel paranostalgic listening to my mom's old 1960s vinyl LPs.
Paranostalgia by Callbee March 3, 2020

Paranoying 

The act of causing another to feel paranoid.
An informal term, this is not a real word.
Stop it, dude you're paranoying me.
Paranoying by Stevef1310 October 19, 2018

paranoys 

To make someone paranoid by action or word.
Osama bin Laden is threatening America again. That paranoys me.
paranoys by Brian Romanjuk December 23, 2006

paranoxym 

Two words place together, commonly adjectives, which is grammatically compliant, but socially abnormal.
brazenly scrumptious
Those peaches were absurdly luscious is a parnoxym.

Every time that girl talks about her brother, some strange paranoxym comes up.
paranoxym by WB/JB June 17, 2009

Paranosis 

A paranoid psychosis.
A supercharged experience usually induced as a random reaction to drugs, mental or emotional instability or a combination thereof.
Fuck dude, put the gun down and get off the roof I told you only one 1 tablet or you'll have a paranosis.
Paranosis by Cheekywitch July 16, 2010

Paranoying 

"stop it, you're paranoying me"
Paranoying by ConorMcHugher1 April 6, 2010