Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a complex of spiritual and consciousness-raising movements originating in the 1970s and covering a range of themes from a belief in spiritualism and reincarnation to advocacy of holistic approaches to health and ecology.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling New Age music.
- noun A style of modern music characterized by a relaxing or dreamy texture derived from quiet harmonies and drones, often incorporating synthesizers and acoustic and ethnic instrumentation.
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- adjective Of or relating to a broad
movement inWestern culture , covering a widevariety ofalternative spiritual andphilosophical ideas , that developed towards the end of the 20th century. - adjective Of or relating to
New Age music . - noun A modern
spiritual andreligious movement. - noun
New Age music .
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Examples
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But another English language daily the New Age is a bit critical.
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But it also has been widely denounced as New Age, meaning that it tends to discount suffering and a personal God (in favor of the "cosmos" and more impersonal energies from within humans -- who, as little deities, then control their own destinies).
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Leonardo is the more offensively-oriented manager with frissons of New Age, as you would expect from someone who cites Gandhi.
Inter Gives Hugs and Love Another Chance Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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This is the New Age crowd indulging in wishful thinking, who need a saint and they are the same ones who have fallen for Obambi's charms and vacuity and who will vote him in.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Sanchez's and Orozco's are corporate and Swan's comes back to New Age.
Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007
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For our education about this and other matters pertaining to the progressive struggle at home and abroad, we were privileged to have access to the progressive newspaper, New Age, until it was banned.
ANC Today 2007
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For our education about this and other matters pertaining to the progressive struggle at home and abroad, we were privileged to have access to the progressive newspaper, New Age, until it was banned.
ANC Today 2007
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This group enjoying the nuances of ancient African music amid just a touch of New Age quirkiness is pure middle class.
From On High 2007
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The novel presents a British religion centred on the worship of a central mother goddess, and makes Boudica the High Priestess of this religion for the Iceni, without drowning the story in New Age mysticism.
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni Carla 2006
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The novel presents a British religion centred on the worship of a central mother goddess, and makes Boudica the High Priestess of this religion for the Iceni, without drowning the story in New Age mysticism.
Archive 2006-03-01 Carla 2006
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