psychedelic
pronunciation
How to pronounce psychedelic in British English: UK [ˌsaɪkəˈdelɪk]
How to pronounce psychedelic in American English: US [ˌsaɪkɪˈdɛlɪk]
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- 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 .