Entrancing means so delightful that it holds you spellbound. An entrancing voice, entrancing to watch, quite entrancing.
The trance in it is meant literally — to entrance somebody is to put them into one, and the word claims the attention was captured rather than given. Note that entrance, the noun meaning a way in, is a different word with a different stress.
1adjectiveentrancingSo delightful that it holds you spellbound.
“The children watched the entrancing puppet show without making a sound.”
entrancing is a quality of charm.
Middle French
entrance — entry
English
entrance
English, today
entrancing
entrance comes from Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA