Enraptured vs Trance - What's the difference?
enraptured | trance |
(enrapture)
To fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate.
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
* Spenser
(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.
To entrance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To pass; to travel.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb enraptured
is (enrapture).As a noun trance is
.enraptured
English
Verb
(head)enrapture
English
Verb
- 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)- And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance .
- My soul was ravished quite as in a trance .
- (Halliwell)
Descendants
* French:Etymology 2
Verb
(tranc)- And there I left him tranced .
- Trance the world over.
- When thickest dark did trance the sky.