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psychedelics

psychedelics is the plural of psychedelic.

Meaning of psychedelic

Noun

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.
    • I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62

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Noun

psychedelics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Visual stimulation in the form of intense colors and moving patterns.

Questions about psychedelics

What does psychedelics mean?
Psychedelics means visual stimulation in the form of intense colors and moving patterns.
What is psychedelics the plural of?
Psychedelics is the plural of psychedelic.
What part of speech is psychedelics?
Psychedelics is a noun.

Words near psychedelics in the dictionary

  1. psychedelically
  2. psychedelicize
  3. psychedelicized
  4. psychedelicizes
  5. psychedelicizing
  6. psychedelics
  7. psyches
  8. Psychiana
  9. psychiater
  10. psychiaters
  11. psychiatria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychedelics (page history and authors); psychedelic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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