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語源

From 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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.kəˌdɛl.ɪk/, /ˈsaɪ.kɪˌdɛl.ɪk/
• (米国発音) enPR: sī'kĭ-děl'ĭk
• 韻: -ɛlɪk

形容詞

psychedelic (comparative more psychedelic, superlative most psychedelic)

1. Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness, etc.

   Synonyms: lysergic, trippy

   • 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 2:

     With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society.

2. (of graphics, etc.) Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations or distortions of perception.

   Synonym: multi-coloured

   • 2022 September 24, HarryBlank, “Transition”, in SCP Foundation‎, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:

     There was a woman sitting on the edge of his bed. She had coral-orange hair, beryl-blue eyes, arched brows, freckles, a coy smile, a psychedelic labcoat and she was, he suddenly realized, his best friend of over twenty years.

派生語

名詞

psychedelic (plural psychedelics)

1. 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.
   • 2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62:

     I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.

間投詞

psychedelic

1. (hippie slang) Awesome, cool, groovy.

関連する語

• psychedelia