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Psychedelic

[sahy-ki-del-ik]

adjective

of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.

of, pertaining to, or noting any of various drugs producing this state, as LSD, mescaline, or psilocybin.

resembling, characteristic of, or reproducing images, sounds, or the like, experienced while in such a state: psychedelic painting.

noun

a psychedelic drug.

a person who uses such a substance.

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Also, psychodelic.

Origin:
1956; psyche + Greek dêl(os) visible, manifest, evident + -ic

Related forms

psy·che·del·i·cal·ly, adverb

pre·psych·e·del·ic, adjective

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Psychedelic jamming, extended disco vamps, hard-rock riffs and hip-hop jump-cuts have.

They won't alter your mind, but the new glowing mushrooms make even scientists sound a bit psychedelic.

I've seen reports of subjects under the influence of psychedelic drugs hearing colors.

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Psychedelic jamming, extended disco vamps, hard-rock riffs and hip-hop jump-cuts have.

They won't alter your mind, but the new glowing mushrooms make even scientists sound a bit psychedelic.

I've seen reports of subjects under the influence of psychedelic drugs hearing colors.

Acid rock, psychedelic drugs and folk music were popular.

So go crash a white wedding, find a foam-filled dance floor or join a psychedelic parade.

The work, a kind of psychedelic myth loosely about the evolution of a group of.

Psychedelic skin tones tell predators this shell-less snail packs a poisonous punch.

And these aren't the first whispers we've heard of psychedelic mushrooms' positive effects.

Listen to their psychedelic blues style as it accompanies the sounds of nature.

It's a psychedelic mindwipe with a mean steel drum solo.

Escher could be found hanging alongside psychedelic rock posters in college dorm rooms nationwide.

Gaze at the vivid yellows, blues, and psychedelic swirls of a single emperor angelfish and you'll sense the whimsy of evolution.

Multicolored filters yield some psychedelic effects.

Thompson during an all-night psychedelic drug binge.

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Instead he writes around it in a highly imaginative, often funny, nearly psychedelic story.

Psychedelic posters and bright green tennis balls came later.

He wore a black velvet jacket, a white silk shirt and a psychedelic tie you might find.

As the signal moves, it modulates and changes shape, painting everything in a hazy psychedelic wash.

Known for their playful, psychedelic installations.

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But the band remained closely connected to many of the top psychedelic groups of the era:.

Once surfin' pin-ups, they remade themselves as avant-garde pop artists, then psychedelic oracles.

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World English Dictionary

psychedelic or psychodelic (ˌsaɪkɪˈdɛlɪk)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or denoting new or altered perceptions or sensory experiences, as through the use of hallucinogenic drugs
2.	denoting any of the drugs, esp LSD, that produce these effects
3.	informal (of painting, fabric design, etc) having the vivid colours and complex patterns popularly associated with the visual effects of psychedelic states

[C20: from psyche + Greek delos visible]

psychodelic or psychodelic

—*adj*

[C20: from psyche + Greek delos visible]

psyche'delically or psychodelic

—*adv*

psycho'delically or psychodelic

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

psychedelic

1956, of drugs, suggested by H. Osmond in a letter to Aldous Huxley and used by Osmond in a scientific paper published the next year; from Gk. psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + deloun "make visible, reveal," from delos "visible, clear." Psychedelia is from 1967.

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Medical Dictionary

psychedelic psy·che·del·ic (sī'kĭ-děl'ĭk)
adj.
Of, characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis. n.
A drug, such as LSD or mescaline, that produces such effects.

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Cultural Dictionary

psychedelic [(seye-kuh-del-ik)]

A descriptive term for things that produce or are related to hallucinations, especially drugs such as LSD.

Note: Psychedelic art, most popular during the late 1960s and early 1970s, combines patterns, objects, light, and sound to simulate hallucinatory experiences.

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