New Agen.adj.

1. A new era of human history, or of the history of a particular society or nation; spec. a name given to the Age of Aquarius (see Aquarius n. 3) which, according to astrological progression, the world entered in the late 20th or early 21st century, and which is believed to signal the beginning of a new spiritual awareness and collective consciousness.In earlier use not always a fixed compound, and frequently with lower-case initial(s).In the specific sense originally heralded in theosophical and mystical writings of the late 19th cent., and from the 1970s associated more generally with a popular ‘alternative’ culture which rejects many modern Western values in favour of a more integrated approach combining aspects of astrology, Christianity, and other religious and philosophical thought, and extending into such additional areas as medicine and ecology.

2. As a mass noun: that which belongs to or is characteristic of the New Age; spec. New Age philosophy or culture; New Age music.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the New Age (in the specific sense); advocating or following the ‘alternative’ philosophy or culture associated with it.

New Age music n. a style of modern music influenced by New Age ideas, which characteristically seeks to develop a mood of relaxation in the listener by reproducing sounds from the natural world, and by the use of light melodic harmonies and improvisation.

New Age traveller n. originally and chiefly British a person, usually an adherent of New Age thinking, who rejects the conventions of contemporary society and adopts an itinerant, typically communal lifestyle, with no regular employment.