Trance
/træns/noun
A hypnotic or altered state of awareness, or a dazed condition.
Did you know?English trance comes through Old French from Latin transire, meaning “to go across” or “pass over,” and its earliest sense was a terrifying one: a swoon or state of being “carried beyond” ordinary awareness.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ters-
“to cross over, pass through”
Latin
Latin
transire
“to go across, pass over”
Old French
Old French
transe
“a swoon, a state of passing beyond consciousness”
Middle English
English
traunce
“a state of bewilderment, swoon, or dazed consciousness”
Modern English
English
trance
“a hypnotic or altered state of awareness”