Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The subculture associated with psychedelic drugs.
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- noun The
subculture associated with those who takepsychedelic drugs
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- noun the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs
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Examples
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A total freak of a song, and so soused in psychedelia it's a surprise to find it was made in 1977.
Readers recommend: fantasy songs Paul MacInnes 2010
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When applied to music, the word psychedelia immediately brings to mind not only the 60s, but a certain sound represented by pioneering albums like the Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Austinist 2010
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The newest single on FW&A is dubbed "Happening" and opens with repetitious yet lush and solitary dream-like chords which recall the psychedelia of the Beatles '"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds".
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Zen serenity rides shotgun with plastic Americana, in a post-modernist (and signature 'psychedelia') "union of incongruity."
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In several nods to the era, other songs are performed with a backdrop of kaleidoscopic psychedelia which is so outrageous that you’d half expect to see Keir Dullea chasing a monolith across the screen.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2005
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Add the groovy psychedelia of late 1967, before the trend went sour.
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The sound of Beach House owes a good deal to old '60s Canterbury psychedelia and several spacey, hazy variants that came to follow.
Symphonic Swells and a Six-String Slinger Andy Battaglia 2011
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Hsiung's strikingly colorful paintings are infused with a popular culture aesthetic ranging from sci-fi movies and television shows to album covers and even 1960s psychedelia.
Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Most of the best of these local favorites can't completely escape the psychedelia that must still flow through the water 40 years after the Summer of Love.
Marc Ruxin: The Bestest 2010 -- Tunage Marc Ruxin 2011
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Most of the best of these local favorites can't completely escape the psychedelia that must still flow through the water 40 years after the Summer of Love.
Marc Ruxin: The Bestest 2010 -- Tunage Marc Ruxin 2011
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