What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Psychedelic vs Cyberdelic - What's the difference?

psychedelic | cyberdelic |

As adjectives the difference between psychedelic and cyberdelic

is that psychedelic is of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness etc while cyberdelic is of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.

As a noun psychedelic

is 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.

As an interjection psychedelic

is awesome, cool, groovy.

psychedelic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness etc.
  • Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations or distortions of perception.
  • Synonyms

    * (of hallucinations) trippy * (having bright colours) multi-coloured

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed]], causes [[perception, perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.
  • Interjection

    psychedelic !
  • awesome, cool, groovy
  • cyberdelic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
  • * 1999 , Simon Reynolds, Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture
  • ...Jody Radzik, a key cyberdelic ideologue who helped out at Osmosis...
  • * 2004 , Timothy Leary, Evolutionary Agents
  • ...a New Breed that loves technology and uses it to revolutionize communication while having fun creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of the 21st Century.
  • * 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.