psychedelic

pronunciation

How to pronounce psychedelic in British English: UK [ˌsaɪkəˈdelɪk]word uk audio image

How to pronounce psychedelic in American English: US [ˌsaɪkɪˈdɛlɪk] word us audio image

  • Adjective:
    producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis
    having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states
    of a mental state characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair

Word Origin

psychedelic (adj.)
occasionally psychodelic, 1956, of drugs, suggested by British-born Canadian psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) in a letter to Aldous Huxley and used by Osmond in a scientific paper published the next year; from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + deloun "make visible, reveal," from delos "visible, clear," from PIE root *dyeu- "to shine" (see diurnal). In popular use from 1965 with reference to anything producing effects similar to that of a psychedelic drug or enhancing the effects of such a drug. As a noun from 1956.

Example

1. Dreamwalker psychedelic rock band the band is an alternative .
2. Hypnotic is what can you make person generation bad really psychedelic ?
3. The subculture of users of psychedelic drugs .
4. Nobody wrote better psychedelic singles than syd barrett .
5. He wanted to know if the psychedelic formula could penetrate the skin , and nonchalantly said that it wasn 't working .

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