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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Instead of his house, we were at a New Age event venue in a strip mall that also contains an apothecary, a dry cleaner, and a head shop.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The day after talking to Cramer, I returned to the New Age center for a final event before heading out.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Marin gave us New Age music and Pablo Cruise; it also gave us Jim Carroll’s indelible punk classic, “People Who Died.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“There’s nothing to support the fact that all these companies should be dumped, just because Broadcom’s got a problem,” said Julian Koski, chief investment officer of New Age Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
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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