Trance vs Narcotic - What's the difference?
trance | narcotic |
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)
Any class of substances or drugs, that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour.
Any type of numbing drug.
Certain illegal drugs.
As nouns the difference between trance and narcotic
is that trance is while narcotic is any class of substances or drugs, that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour.As an adjective narcotic is
of, or relating to narcotics.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.