trance
English
/tɹɑːns/, /tɹæns/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
- (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
- (countable) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
- (uncountable)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English traunce derived from transe (passage from life to death, fear of coming evil) derived from Latin trānseō (go across, I pass, cross over).
Origin
Latin
trānseō
Gloss
go across, I pass, cross over
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Eurotrance English
- semitrance English
- trance-like English
- trancecore English
- tranced English
- trancedly English
- trancelike English
- trancer English
- trancester English
- trancework English
- trancey English
- trancy English
- transire English
- work English
- trānseō Latin
- trance Italian
- trance French
- transit French
- trance Spanish, Castilian
- transe Norwegian Bokmål
- trance Portuguese
- トランス Japanese
- trance Polish
- transe Norwegian Nynorsk
- traunce Middle English
- transe Old French
- transe xno
- traunce xno
- trase Neapolitan