mind-expanding
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mind-expanding
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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I received a copy of “Big Bang” for Christmas when I was 17, and its story of a scientific revolution remains as mind-expanding now as it did then.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“Then, how do you have a mind-expanding experience, but, most importantly, how do you then integrate that into your life to be more fulfilled?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
If one Jamaican company has its way, Heather Tal Murphy writes, mind-expanding high-end chocolate bars might become normal.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2023
But the new hang in Sydney, across both buildings, is exhilarating and mind-expanding.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
Magic there was in plenty-the air tingled with it—that exhilarating, mind-expanding silence of mountain-tops which is the most thrilling magic of all.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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