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English
Etymology
From pre- + psychedelic.
Adjective
prepsychedelic (not comparable)
- Related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.
1988 November 11, Albert Williams, “An American Dream”, in Chicago Reader:Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse and Andy Miller, whose songs form the spine of this brief show, seem willing to oblige.
2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, →ISBN, page 173:By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.