New Age
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as occult, metaphysical, or paranormal.
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of or relating to an unintrusive style of music using both acoustic and electronic instruments and drawing on classical music, jazz, and rock.
noun
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a philosophy, originating in the late 1980s, characterized by a belief in alternative medicine, astrology, spiritualism, etc
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( as modifier )
New Age therapies
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short for New Age music
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of New Age
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Remski said he sees connections between the kind of New Age spirituality pioneered by Chopra and other developments in society, economics and politics that have enabled a hyper-individualist culture.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
Purser said he sees “scandal” not as “an accident or a bug” but rather a “feature” of the New Age economy.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
Orage, editor of the New Age magazine, which published some of her earliest stories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
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
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
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