Trance vs Hardstyle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between trance and hardstyle

is that trance is a dazed or unconscious condition while hardstyle is a genre of music that combines elements of trance, hardcore, and rave.

As a verb trance

is to entrance.

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)

Anagrams

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hardstyle

English

Noun

(-)

(music) A genre of music that combines elements of trance, hardcore, and rave.

* 2002 , "mik", gabber/terror/hardcore'' (on newsgroup ''uk.music.rave )

hi jack. you just missed the best hardcore/gabba party: "thunderdome - a decade", here in amsterdam. 2 huge rooms filled with 15.000 people (the party had sold out weeks in advance), one room for oldstyle (92-97), one for the newer hardcore/hardstyle (97-02).