Definition of Mind-bending

1. Adjective. Intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations.

Exact synonyms: Mind-blowing
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Psychoactive, Psychotropic

Definition of Mind-bending

1. Adjective. Hallucinogenic. ¹

2. Adjective. Mentally taxing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mind-bending

minceur
minchen
mincier
minciest
mincing
mincing machine
mincing words
mincingly
mincings
mincy
mind
mind's ear
mind's eye
mind-altering
mind-altering drug
mind-bending (current term)
mind-blowing
mind-blowingness
mind-body
mind-body relations
mind-boggler
mind-boggling
mind-bogglingly
mind-expanding
mind-numbing
mind-numbingness
mind-read
mind-reader
mind-reading

Literary usage of Mind-bending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nuces Philosophicæ: Or, The Philosophy of Things as Developed from the Study by Edward Johnson (1842)
"It is utterly and unconditionally absurd to the very lowest degree, to talk of the mind's bending back, or taking a view of its own operations. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"An original mind bending its intense action on any branch of science, and, by such action, if I may say so, causing it to unfold its natural growth, ..."

3. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1861)
"The articulating organs ; the life-supporting air ; the mind, Bending its imperial decrees from the brain, where it sits enthroned, along the nerves that ..."

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