Rapt means so absorbed that nothing else reaches you. Rapt attention, a rapt audience, listened rapt.
It describes the state of being carried away rather than merely interested, and the origin says so: the Latin means seized. Rapt attention is the fixed phrase. Note the spelling against wrapped, which sounds identical; and that rapture, rapid and ravish come from the same seizing.
1adjectiveraptSo absorbed that nothing else reaches you.
“The children listened with rapt attention as the old man told his story.”
rapt is a state of absorption.
Latin raptus is the past participle of rapere, to seize. Rapture, rapid and ravish come from the same seizing.
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Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA