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trance (trans, träns)

noun

  1. a state of altered consciousness, somewhat resembling sleep, during which voluntary movement is lost, as in hypnosis
  2. a stunned condition; daze; stupor
  3. a condition of great mental concentration or abstraction, esp. one induced by religious fervor or mysticism
  4. in spiritualistic belief, a condition in which a medium passes under the control of some external force, as for the transmission of communications from the dead during a séance

Etymology: ME < OFr transe, great anxiety, fear < transir, to perish < L transire, to die, lit., go across: see transit

transitive verb tranced, tranc·ing

Old Poet. entrance

trance Synonyms

trance

n.

trance Usage Examples

Preposition: like

  • state: The therapist will then gently wake you from your trance like state.

Converse of object

  • induce: There has been no special induction, no attempt to induce a deep trance.
  • uplift: Just wondering if there are any good uplifting trance, jungle, and hard dance nights out there.
  • enter: Finally, however, she enters a trance herself.
  • play: His style is primarily progressive and tech house but often plays tribal, trance and funky sets.

Adjective modifier

  • hypnotic: For the same reason the phrase " an hypnotic trance " will not be used.
  • shamanic: This is essentially a powerful divination session by means of shamanic trance.
  • psychedelic: As to be expected from a night of psychedelic trance, the decoration was stupendous.
  • ecstatic: How is spinning to a roomful of people in an ecstatic trance induced solely by your music like a spiritual experience?
  • deep: In the Deep Trance you can have the ability to open your eyes without affecting the trance.
  • progressive: With Sasha, Digweed was responsible for bringing progressive trance and house to an eager audience in the genre's fledgling years.

Modifies a noun

  • induction: The best quality of trance induction is on a 121 basis.
  • state: Users may even fall into a deep trance state.
  • phenomenon: Trance phenomena are, to a greater or lesser degree, part of all therapy.
  • music: Some danced to the beat of trance music, others chanted.
  • scene: Kenny told me he just had to come and had got into Gilles via the trance scene of Sasha!
  • dance: You may even be lucky enough to see the ritual trance dance in which enchanted nymphs chase away evil spirits!

Noun used with modifier

  • psy: Shaz xxxx â¹ Where's all the psy trance?
  • tech: Marco V then followed on, plowing his way through many tech trance stormers; he always seems to be on very early?
  • quality: A very cool and high quality trance, techno refill from Zero-G.
trance Quotes

   He hath awakened from the dream of lifeö 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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