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psychedelia|saɪkɪˈdiːlɪə|
[Back-formation from next: see -ia2.]
Psychedelic articles or phenomena collectively; the subculture associated with psychedelic drugs.
1967Melody Maker 27 May 9 Apparently today's hippie must be expanded and experienced in the whys and wherefores of psychedelia but it cannot be said that the products of this society are all ‘junkie’. 1967Listener 10 Aug. 169/2, I am unfriendly to the whole idea of psychedelia and the very notion of a chemical paradise with all those tangerine trees and marmalade skies seems absurd and slightly tatty. 1968Rat 13–16 May 17/2 Buttons, posters, trip glasses, zodiac pendants, psychedelia. 1972D. Sale Love Bite xiv. 172 The crazy jumble of sights and sounds and smells... Here was psychedelia that could never be achieved artificially in a discothèque; a relaxed and happy sense of awareness without the use of pills or pot. 1976Maclean's Mag. 15 Nov. 4/1 In the Sixties his [sc. Dr. Timothy Leary's] name was synonymous with psychedelia. |