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

Appeared in the December 20, 2025, print edition as 'A Ship to Nowhere Marks the New Age of Luxury'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 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

As Kiera Butler and Anna Merlan at Mother Jones documented, Means veers "in a more New Age direction" in her "medical" writing.

From Salon • May 19, 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

Supermarket tabloids never provide an end-of-year list of false predictions by psychics, nor do the more upscale New Age periodicals, which, despite a veneer of sophistication, are just as fatuous.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos