Trance
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English
Noun
Trance (plural Trances)- A dazed or unconscious condition.
- (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
- (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
- (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
- (uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
Descendants
- French: trance
Adjectives for Trance
spectral; rigid; magic; mystic; compassionate; blissful; icy; stupid; restless; ecstatic; cataleptic; dizzy; spiritual; stilly; lethargic; doleful; speechless; detested.
Thesaurus
absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, amnesia, animal hypnosis, autohypnosis, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, catalepsy, cataleptic, cataleptic hypnosis, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, coma, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daze, depth of thought, dharana, dhyana, dream, dream state, dreaming, ecstasis, ecstasy, encephalitis lethargica, engrossment, enrapture, enravish, entrance, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, fugue, fugue state, half-conscious, high, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotic, hypnotic sleep, hypnotic trance, lethargic hypnosis, lethargy, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, rapture, ravish, reverie, samadhi, sedation, self-hypnosis, shock, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulistic hypnosis, somnipathy, sopor, stargazing, study, stupor, swoon, thanatosis, woolgathering, yoga trance
