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trance

/tɹɑːns/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A dazed or unconscious condition.
  2. A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
  3. A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
  4. Short for trance music.
  5. To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
  6. To create in or via a trance.
  7. (obsolete outside Britain) A tedious journey.
  8. (obsolete outside Britain) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
  9. (obsolete outside Britain) To pass across or over; to traverse.
  10. (obsolete outside Britain) To travel quickly over a long distance.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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