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coronoia

noun

Etymology

Blend of corona + paranoia.

  1. learned borrowing from παράνοια
  2. compounded as coronoia — “corona + paranoia”

Definitions

  1. Unfounded fear surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19, which may include fear of the spread…

    Unfounded fear surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19, which may include fear of the spread of the virus or fear of governmental conspiracies in the reaction to the virus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coronoia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA