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Definition: Psychedelia |
PsychedeliaNoun1. The subculture of users of psychedelic drugs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Music |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Psychedelia takes its name from psychedelic drugs, which helped give rise to the loud, swirling, pastel visual imagery and paisley designs. It was also influenced by Hindu, American Indian, and various Asian motifs, and extensive use of collage were a hallmark of the style.
For psychedelia as a musical phenomenon, see psychedelic music.
Some artists that were associated with the style of psychedelia are:
Visual artists:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Psychedelia."
| "Psychedelia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Psychedelia" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.15% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
psychedelia | 21 |
picture psychedelia | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "psychedelia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | галлюцинаторное мироощущение, психоделия. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychedelia": psychedelias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: chelipeds. | |
-3 letters: calipees, cepheids, cheapies, cheesily, cheliped, chiseled, cypselae, displace, ecdysial, eclipsed, especial, helipads, ladyship, pedicels, pedicles, physical, pleached, pleaches, pleiades, speedily. | |
-4 letters: aediles, alipeds, aphides, apishly, calipee, caliphs, cepheid, chapels, cheapie, cheaply, chields, childes, clashed, clasped, clayish, cypsela, deciles, dehisce, delphic, dialyse, diphase, display, eclipse, edaphic, elapids, elapsed, escaped, eyelash, eyelids, halides. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: psychedelias. | |
+3 letters: hydrocephalies. | |
+4 letters: psychedelically. | |
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