New Age

American  

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.

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noun

1. the New Age movement.

New Age British  

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. short for New Age music

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Other Word Forms

• New Ager noun

Etymology

Origin of New Age

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Appeared in the October 6, 2025, print edition as 'The New Age of Entrepreneurship: 70 to 79 The New Age of Entrepreneurship Starts in the 70s'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

As the Daily Beast has detailed, some companies sell devices they describe as medbeds, invoking some kind of New Age healing promises or other nonsense science.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

The couple lived off grid and created their own bespoke belief system based on a mixture of elements that drew from New Age mysticism and West African religion.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

He had been running a cooperative store in the Transkei which he was soon to give up to become an editor of the weekly New Age.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela