trance

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trance

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trances

  1. (countable) A trance is a mental state in which a person is only half-conscious. It has been called "an altered state of consciousness". The person seems unaware of what is around them, as if 'lost in thought'.
    He seemed to be in a trance, as if someone had hypnotized him.