tranceelectronic music with a hypnotic qualityAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embreetrance (tr?ns)n.1. A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.2. Detachment from one’s physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.3. A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.4. A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect.tr.v. tranced, tranc·ing, tranc·es To put into a trance; entrance.[Middle English traunce, from Old French transe, passage, fear, vision, from transir, to die, be numb with fear, from Latin tr?ns?re, to go over or across; see transient.]trance?like? adj.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.trance (tr??ns) n1. (Physiology) a hypnotic state resembling sleep2. any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli3. a dazed or stunned state4. a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level5. (Alternative Belief Systems) spiritualism a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead6. (Music, other) a type of electronic dance music with repetitive rhythms, aiming at a hypnotic effectvb (tr) to put into or as into a trance[C14: from Old French transe, from transir to faint, pass away, from Latin tr?ns?re to go over, from trans- + ?re to go] ?trance?like adjCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014trance (træns, tr?ns) n., v. tranced, tranc?ing. n. 1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended, esp. a state produced by hypnosis or religious ecstasy. 2. a dazed or bewildered condition. 3. a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing. 4. a type of electronic disco music derived from techno and other rave styles, characterized by sounds that have a hypnotic or spiritual quality. v.t. 5. to entrance; enrapture. [1300?50; Middle English traunce