New Age

adjective

1. of or relating to a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as occult, metaphysical, or paranormal.
2. of or relating to an unintrusive style of music using both acoustic and electronic instruments and drawing on classical music, jazz, and rock.

noun

1. the New Age movement.

New Age

noun

1. 1. a philosophy, originating in the late 1980s, characterized by a belief in alternative medicine, astrology, spiritualism, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      New Age therapies

2. See New Age music
   short for New Age music

Other Words From

• New Ager noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Age¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

A great benefit of the ubiquity of the Internet in the developed world has been the facilitation of a new age of entrepreneurship.

From The Daily Beast

It is cutting-edge products like these that are helping define this new age of wireless entertainment.

From The Daily Beast

And that original score that kicks in as a new-age Millennium Falcon swoops into view is sure to get you going.

From The Daily Beast

Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.

From The Daily Beast

Young said he views this historic summit meeting in Washington as “the beginning of a new age of globalization.”

From The Daily Beast

Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

From Project Gutenberg

A new age would come under scrutiny and more notes would be taken.

From Project Gutenberg

The nineteenth century not only shows a new age, but probably begins a new section of universal history.

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He is, as Weigandt has called him, the first man of the bourgeois century, the first pioneer of the new age.

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With Boucher the idea of honour, of innocence, has become something strange; the new age requires virtue, bonnes mœurs.

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