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spacy, a.|ˈspeɪsɪ|
Also spacey.
[f. space n.1 + -y.]
1. Large, roomy, spacious. Hence ˈspaciness.
1885Art Jrnl. 189/2 A sense of spaciness in the picture. 1891C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole vii. 62 My study lamp..throwing a mellow light upon my desk, [and] my spacy blotting-pad.
2. In a heightened state of consciousness; disoriented from reality, = spaced ppl. a. 4. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 117 Spacey, adj, appearing to be functioning on a level higher than normal. 1972Last Whole Earth Catalog (Portola Inst.) 67/3 Her expression was very spacy... Her eyes were so weird it was hard to read anything very definite in her face... She..sat on the curb in the lotus posture and stared off into the east. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 July 32/6 ‘You get pretty spacey after doing a lot of interviews,’ she said. ‘One time someone asked me if Dylan had changed a lot and I was so spacey I said, ‘Well, he doesn't bum drinks any more.’’ 1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) ii. 10/2 She spotted Martha's ex-husband-once-removed with his spacy new old lady. 1980J. A. Carver Panglor (1981) viii. 138 His head felt large, and a little spacey, and he felt a heightened sense of geometry, of perspective.
3. Of, pertaining to, or purportedly characteristic of (conditions in) outer space; esp. used in connection with electronic music.
1971It 2–16 June 19/2 A good studio-produced album sounding very live and certainly spacey. 1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 62/5 Terje Rypdal,..spun spacey riffs clothed in lots of distortion. 1980Radio Times 27 Sept.–3 Oct. 89/3 For 18 years Ron Grainger's tune gave the programme [sc. ‘Dr. Who’] an eerie, spacey feel. |