Trance vs Trauma - What's the difference?
trance | trauma |
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)
Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
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An event that causes great distress.
As nouns the difference between trance and trauma
is that trance is a dazed or unconscious condition while trauma is any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.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)- 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
* * * * * * ----trauma
English
(wikipedia trauma)Noun
(en-noun)citation, page= , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}