Other forms: trances
A trance is a dazed state between sleeping and waking. In a trance, fall into a trance, a trance-like state.
It is used loosely of anybody absorbed to the point of not noticing the room, and hypnosis produces something like it deliberately. Trance is also a genre of electronic music, named for the effect it aims at.
1nountranceA dazed state between sleeping and waking.
“She stared out of the window as if in a trance, not hearing a word I said.”
trance is a state.
Old French transe means a passage or a numbness, from transir, to pass over or die.
Latin
trānseō — to cross over
Anglo-Norman
transe — fear of coming evil; passage from life to death
Middle English
traunce
English, today
trance
Built from
From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA