trance (trɑːns
)
Definitions
noun
- a hypnotic state resembling sleep
- any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli
- a dazed or stunned state
- a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level
- spiritualism a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead
- a type of electronic dance music with repetitive rhythms, aiming at a hypnotic effect
verb
- (tr) to put into or as into a trance
Alternative Forms
ˈtranceˌlike adjectiveWord Origin
C14: from Old French transe , from transir to faint, pass away, from Latin trānsīre to go over, from trans- + īre to goSynonyms
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daze,
dream,
spell,
ecstasy,
muse,
abstraction,
rapture,
reverie,
stupor,
unconsciousness,
hypnotic state
Usage examples
The trance concerto continued for exactly a quarter of an hour.
, The Broken God (1993)I want people to shake their ass and shut their eyes and just trance out.
NME (New Musical Express) (2004)Behind her, a nun walked past, her head nodding in time as if she were in a trance.
canada.com (2005)Betty Meyler, from Boyle, Co Roscommon, says she "saw "herself perish in the 1912 tragedy while in a trance.
Sun, News of the World (2002)Here and there, the national trance has been disturbed.
, Bedside Guardian 38 (1989)