偏执狂

偏執狂
piānzhíkuáng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 paranoia; monomania
  2. 2 a paranoid or obsessive person

Examples

Tā duì gānjìng de zhízhuó jiǎnzhí xiàng ge piānzhíkuáng.
His obsession with cleanliness borders on monomania.
Yīshēng zhěnduàn tā huàn yǒu piānzhíkuáng.
The doctor diagnosed him with paranoia.

Tips

usage
In clinical use, refers to delusional disorder (fixed paranoid beliefs). In everyday speech, often used loosely for any obsessive perfectionist — Andy Grove's 'Only the Paranoid Survive' is translated as 《只有偏执狂才能生存》.

In Pop Culture

只有偏执狂才能生存 Zhǐyǒu piānzhíkuáng cáinéng shēngcún
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andy Grove's famous management book — the Chinese title turned 偏执狂 into a Silicon-Valley business buzzword.

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