Trance

Quick meaning: Trance is a noun meaning (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

Meaning

(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

More Meanings

1. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
2. (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
4. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
5. (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
6. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
7. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.

Example Sentences

Trance the world o'er.

And there I left him tranced.

My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.

Word Forms

• trances
• traunce
• trancing
• tranced

Synonyms for trance

Depending on context, synonyms include trounce, charm, beguile, entrance, enchantment, bewitch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fascinate, enchantment, captivate, enchant, bewitch, becharm.

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