trance

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trance /trɑːns/

▶noun

• 1 a half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli, typically as induced by hypnosis or entered by a medium.

• 2 a state of abstraction.

• 3 (also trance music) a type of electronic dance music characterized by hypnotic rhythms.

▶verb literary put into a trance.

– derivatives
trance-like adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. transir ‘depart, fall into a trance’, from L. transire ‘go across’.