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psychedelic definition

psy·che·delic (sī′kə delik)

adjective

  1. of or causing extreme changes in the conscious mind, as hallucinations, delusions, intensification of awareness and sensory perception, etc.
  2. of or associated with psychedelic drugs; specif., simulating the auditory or visual effects of the psychedelic state
  3. designating any of various fluorescent colors popularized during the 1960s

Etymology: < psyche + Gr dēloun, to make manifest

noun

a psychedelic drug

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