New Age
New Age
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as occult, metaphysical, or paranormal.
2.
of or pertaining to an unintrusive style of music using both acoustic and electronic instruments and drawing on classical music, jazz, and rock.
noun
3.
the New Age movement.
Origin:
1970–75
1970–75
Related forms
New Ager, noun
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World English Dictionary
| New Age | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a philosophy, originating in the late 1980s, characterized by a belief in alternative medicine, astrology, spiritualism, etc |
| b. (as modifier): New Age therapies | |
| 2. | short for New Age music |
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| New Age music or New Age | |
| —n | |
| a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments | |
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| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
New Age
1971, in ref. to a modern spiritual movement, from new + age. It had been used at various times since at least the 1840s.
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Cultural Dictionary
New Age definition
A general term covering a wide variety of alternative spiritual and philosophical movements and beliefs. Arising mainly during the 1980s, New Age teachings range from the efficacy of crystals, to a belief in reincarnation, to the advocacy of holistic and other approaches to personal health and global ecology.
Note: New Age music incorporates relaxing, dreamy melodic lines with a quietly harmonic background, primarily in order to promote meditation.
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