- The Grateful Dead set the gold standard of psychadelia.
psychadelia
noun; analogy
That which is psychadelic. (plural) Trivial things are called trivia; intelligent people are the intelligentsia. Following this pattern, we can come up with terms like psychadelia, which is the collection of all things psychadelic.
Etymology : Greek psych (mind) + Greek delos (clear) + -ia (suffix for collective nouns)
Source : Rolling Stone magazine
Last modified: 10 June 2008