psychedelic
Any psychoactive substance which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes, visual…Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.
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» Tom sells psychedelic mushrooms.
Том продає психоделічні гриби. — deniko
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1 sensesAny psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.
Psychedelikum
психоде́ликpsixodélik
психоде́лікpsyxodélik
Examples
19 sentencesTom sells psychedelic mushrooms.
Том продає психоделічні гриби. — deniko
Sami was never addicted to psychedelics.
It was a very psychedelic experience.
I'm a big fan of psychedelic rock.
It's a psychedelic reverie of patterns and colors.
Translations
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Origin
From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + EnglFrom Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + English -ic (prefix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in a 1956 letter to Aldous Huxley.
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Forms
plural: psychedelics| Singular | psychedelic |
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Word family
1 related wordsSee also
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