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DictionarytranceAltered awareness
noun

trance

TRANS/træns/

A dazed or hypnotic state of awareness.

The man sits in a trance, absorbed in the swinging pendulum.

Man sits absorbed in hypnotic pendulum focus with reduced awareness.
Etymology
tranceOld Frenchcrossing; coma; passage from life to death

Old French transe linked a crossing with coma and passage from life to death. English carried this notion of “passing away or apart” into states detached from ordinary awareness.

In context

Prof. Sam Vaknin112:47
he is like in a in a daze in a trance they have to wake him up they have to bring him back to reality
How Narcissist Falls Apart (Compilation)

More examples

  • The repeated sound seemed to put him into a trance.
  • He emerged from the trance slowly.
  • The scene portrays a hypnotic trance.

Forms

trance · trances

Similar words

stupor
Reduced awareness, often through illness or intoxication.
reverie
Absorbed daydreaming rather than a trance state.