Trance vs Tranquil - What's the difference?
trance | tranquil |
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)
Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
* 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
Calm; without motion or sound.
* 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
As a noun trance
is a dazed or unconscious condition.As a verb trance
is to entrance.As an adjective tranquil is
free from emotional or mental disturbance.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
* * * * * * ----tranquil
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
- that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.