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Trance vs Stance - What's the difference?

trance | stance |

As nouns the difference between trance and stance

is that trance is while stance is the manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.

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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    stance

    English

    (wikipedia stance)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
    • The fencer’s stance showed he was ready to begin.
  • One’s opinion or point of view.
    • I don’t agree with your stance on gun control.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=His stance as being against the world of finance and his proposal of a 75% tax on incomes over €1m (£817,000) was approved by a majority in polls. He was convinced that his more measured, if ploddingly serious, style would win out with an electorate tired of Sarkozy's bling and frenetic policy initiatives.}}
  • (Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (obsolete) A stanza.
    • (Chapman)

    Synonyms

    * opinion * position * stand

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