| Main Entry: | trance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypnotic state |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, catalepsy, catatonia, coma, daze, dream, ecstasy, glaze, insensibility, muse, petrifaction, rapture, reverie, spell, study, stupor, transfixion, transfixture, unconsciousness |
Antonyms: |
consciousness |
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
Synonyms: |
absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
Synonyms: |
blackout, dullness, faint, hebetude, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, somnolence, stupor, swoon, syncope, torpidity, torpor, trance |
Antonyms: |
alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | daze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confusion |
Synonyms: |
befuddlement, bewilderment, distraction, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance |
Antonyms: |
expectation, understanding |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delectation, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven, trance, transport, twilight zone |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
Antonyms: |
despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | fascination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong interest |
Synonyms: |
allure, appeal, attraction, bug*, charisma, charm, enchantment, enthrallment, glamour, grabber, hang-up, lure, magic, magnetism, obsession, piquancy, power, pull*, sorcery, spell, thing for, thing*, trance, witchcraft, witchery |
Antonyms: |
boredom, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
Synonyms: |
befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness |
Antonyms: |
cognizance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ravish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enchant |
Synonyms: |
allure, attract, bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, draw, enrapture, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, hold, hypnotize, magnetize, mesmerize, overjoy, please, spellbind, trance, transport |
Antonyms: |
disenchant, repulse, turn off |
| Main Entry: | reverie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydream |
Synonyms: |
absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castle-building, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess, dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention, meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe dream, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
nightmare |