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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 take psychedelic drugs

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  • noun the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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".

    Insomnia Radio: Indie Music Network 2009

  • Zen serenity rides shotgun with plastic Americana, in a post-modernist (and signature 'psychedelia') "union of incongruity."

    Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis 1001

  • 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

  • Add the groovy psychedelia of late 1967, before the trend went sour.

    Oh, What Can It Mean? 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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