psychoactive substance

Questions about psychoactive substance

What does psychoactive substance mean?

psychoactive substance means "a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions".

What is another word for psychoactive substance?

Close synonyms include psychoactive drug, mind-altering drug, consciousness-altering drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is psychoactive substance a common word?

psychoactive substance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.