Synonyms of trance

trance

noun

ˈtran(t)s 

as in daydreaming

the state of being lost in thought

lulled by the sound of the train, she stared out the window in a trance, oblivious to the fact that the conductor was taking tickets

Synonyms & Similar Words

• daydreaming
• reverie
• study
• daydream
• contemplation
• meditation
• dream
• woolgathering
• vision
• absorption
• musing
• abstraction
• preoccupation
• hallucination
• unreality
• fantasy
• delusion
• illusion
• chimera
• phantasm
• pipe dream
• absentmindedness
• figment
• conceit
• fancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of trance

His research has included brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, as well as surveys of people's spiritual experiences and attitudes. — Big Think, 6 Aug. 2026

One by one, as if roused from a trance, my fellow staffers rose from their workstations and filed to the exit. — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026

As people around her begin slipping into an emotionally numb trance described as being eclipsed, the boundaries between Bego’s imagination, the digital world and physical reality begin to dissolve. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 30 July 2026

Close Encounters was a different sort of dream, happily and wordlessly mysterious to the end, an orchestrated trance. — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 14 July 2026