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Examples of psychedelia in a Sentence
the tie-dyed fashions of psychedelia
music ranging from jazz to disco to '60s psychedelia
Recent Examples of psychedelia from the Web
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Fans who tune in to be ravished by the show’s psychedelia and then dissect it on Reddit will be satisfied, and skeptics who see Hawley as a mascot for the excesses of peak TV may still do so.
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Trupa Trupa rolled in from Gdansk, Poland, with a guitar made out of what looked like a fuel can and a sound that fused East European post-punk in the mold of Plastic People of the Universe and Pulnoc with psychedelia.
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Her songs look at restless travels along with the details of everyday life, in roots-rock with a nimbus of psychedelia.
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The trio from Texas has built a career out of turning sounds from around the world into a unique brand of instrumental, down-tempo psychedelia.
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Beck's eclectic catalog offers a sweeping look at his influences and tastes, which include experimental rock, hip-hop, electronica, folk, funk, country, psychedelia, Latin American music and more.
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The result was Legion, the first non-animated superhero show to aim for the wild psychedelia of ’70s comic books.
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Scholastic’s educational and wildly entertaining ’90s science show helped the medicine go down with a spoonful of zany psychedelia.
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The album, Beck’s 13th, meticulously merges modern dance-pop with joyous indie rock and the sort of sunshine psychedelia minted by the Beach Boys (who once used this studio).
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Origin and Etymology of psychedelia
First Known Use: 1967
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of psychedelia for English Language Learners
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: the art, music, style of living, etc., that is associated with psychedelic drugs and especially with the time in the 1960s when many people were using psychedelic drugs
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