Trance

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /trɑːns/
• Rhymes: -ɑːns
• US IPA: /træns/
• Rhymes: -æns

From Middle English traunce, from Old French transe ("fear of coming evil", "passage from life to death"), from transir ("to be numb with fear", "die", "pass on"), from Latin trānseō ("to cross over")

Alternative forms

• traunce obsolete

Full definition of trance

Noun

1. A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
• Bible, Acts x. 10And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
• SpenserMy soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
3. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
4. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
5. (uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
6. (obsolete) A tedious journey.

Descendants

• French: trance

Verb

1. To entrance.
• ShakespeareAnd there I left him tranced.
2. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
• Beaumont and FletcherTrance the world over.
• TennysonWhen thickest dark did trance the sky.
3. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

Anagrams

• canter
• carnet
• centra
• Cretan
• nectar
• recant