Trance vs Faint - What's the difference?
trance | faint |
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)
Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed.
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
* Sir J. Davies
* 2005 , .
To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of a suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
* Bible, Mark viii. 8
* Guardian
To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 10
To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between trance and faint
is that trance is while faint is the act of fainting.As an adjective faint is
lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.As a verb faint is
to lose consciousness caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of a suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).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.
Anagrams
* * * * * * ----faint
English
Adjective
(er)- "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Robert Burns - To Dr. Blackjack.
- the faint prosecution of the war
- do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?
Derived terms
* damn with faint praiseVerb
(en verb)- If I send them away fasting they will faint by the way.
- Hearing the honour intended her, she fainted away.
- If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.