wombadelia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When My Bloody Valentine released their debut album Isn't Anything in 1988 they essentially created a new genre of rock that one may venture to call "wombadelia". At once ethereal and sexual, oceanic and astral, blissed-up and fucked up, beautiful and noisy, […]""
- "My Bloody Valentine is another group you may want to investigate if you are into the pretty-female-vocal-mixed-with-powerful-rhythms-and-high-density-sound genre (known in some critical circles as "wombadelia")."
- "Then comes Comet's true forte: starry-eyed, slowcore webs of patiently brushed cymbals and madly reverberated guitar. At their best, on "Sputnik," the Stones' slow-burning waves of woozy wombadelia creep up and double over into melodic explosions of bombast and beauty."
Etymology
Blend of womb + psychedelia. Coined by Alternative Press' editor Dave Segal in 1992, to describe My Bloody Valentine's music.