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Enraptured vs Trance - What's the difference?

enraptured | trance |

As a verb enraptured

is (enrapture).

As a noun trance is

.

enraptured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enrapture)

  • enrapture

    English

    Verb

  • To fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate.
  • Her song enraptured the audience with vivid images of the Scandinavian landscapes.

    trance

    English

    (wikipedia trance)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) traunce, from (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * traunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dazed or unconscious condition.
  • (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 10
  • And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance .
  • * Spenser
  • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance .
  • (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
  • (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
  • (uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
  • (obsolete) A tedious journey.
  • (Halliwell)
    Descendants
    * French:

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (tranc)
  • To entrance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And there I left him tranced .
  • (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Trance the world over.
  • * Tennyson
  • When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  • (obsolete) To pass; to travel.
  • (Webster 1913)

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