Trance vs Trancey - What's the difference?
trance | trancey |
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)
(informal) Trancelike.
* 2002 , Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday
(informal, music) Resembling or pertaining to trance music, i.e. immersively melodic with a strong electronic dance beat.
* 2004 , Chris Baty, Chicago: City Guide
* 2005 , Matt Rauscher, The Unborn Spouse Situation
As a noun trance
is .As an adjective trancey is
(informal) trancelike.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
* * * * * * ----trancey
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was really beautiful, like a dark-haired cherub. And he always seemed upbeat and happy, in a trancey world of his own.
- Video monitors play the latest clips from Bjork and Peaches while DJs take the dance floor in a trancey direction.
- At the foot of the hill, trancey music from a garage party beckoned.