different between psychedelic vs cyberdelic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (psukh?, “mind, soul”) + ????? (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic. Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.k??d?l.?k/, /?sa?.k??d?l.?k/ (UK)
• enPR: s?'k?-d?l'?k (US)

Adjective

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

   Synonym: multi-coloured

Translations

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.
   • 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.

Translations

Interjection

psychedelic

1. (hippie slang) awesome, cool, groovy

Related terms

• psychedelia

English

Etymology

Blend of cyber- +? psychedelic

Adjective

cyberdelic (comparative more cyberdelic, superlative most cyberdelic)

1. Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
   • 2006, Hugh B. Urban, Magia sexualis: sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism

     With pornography now accounting for 60 percent of its use, according to some estimates, the Internet would seem to represent not just a cyberdelic revolution but a new form of cybersexual revolution.