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| Main Entry: | trance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypnotic state |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, coma, daze, dream, ecstasy, glaze, insensibility, muse, rapture, reverie, spell, study, stupor, catalepsy, catatonia, petrifaction, transfixion, transfixture, unconsciousness |
| Antonyms: | consciousness |
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
| Synonyms: | absorption, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, musing, preoccupation, reflection, reverie, thinking, trance, aloofness, brooding, engrossment, entrancement, pensiveness, pondering, reflecting, remoteness, ruminating |
| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | dullness, faint, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, stupor, swoon, torpor, trance, blackout, hebetude, somnolence, syncope, torpidity |
| Antonyms: | alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | daze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confusion |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, distraction, glaze, haze, maze, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance, befuddlement, gauze, lala-land, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis |
| Antonyms: | expectation, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, paradise, rapture, seventh heaven*, trance, transport, twilight zone*, delectation, joyfulness, ravishment, rhapsody |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
| Antonyms: | despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fascination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal, attraction, bug*, charisma, charm, enchantment, glamour, hang-up*, lure, magic, magnetism, obsession, piquancy, power, pull*, sorcery, spell, thing*, trance, witchcraft, enthrallment, grabber, thing for, witchery |
| Antonyms: | boredom, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suspension of consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, catnap, coma, dormancy, doze, dream, dullness, few z's, forty winks*, hibernation, lethargy, nap, nod, repose, rest, sack time, sandman, shuteye, siesta, slumber, slumberland, snooze, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | study |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | learning, analysis |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, muse, musing, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing, academic work, analyzing, cramming, memorizing, pondering, rumination, schoolwork |
| Main Entry: | stupor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daze, unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | amazement, anesthesia, apathy, bewilderment, coma, dullness, inertia, insensibility, languor, lassitude, lethargy, numbness, sleep, slumber, stupefaction, suspended animation, swoon, torpor, trance, asphyxia, fainting, hebetude, hypnosis, inertness, narcosis, petrifaction, somnolence, sopor, swooning |
| Antonyms: | consciousness, sensibility |
| 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, nightmare, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith, mental picture |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, please, trance, transport, overjoy, spellbind |
| Antonyms: | repulse, turn off, disenchant |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
| Synonyms: | blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, obscurity, stupor, trance, vagueness, befuddlement, muddledness, muddlement, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magical aura over an entity |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, allure, amulet, charm, enchanting, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, glamour, hex, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo*, sorcery, talisman, trance, voodoo*, whack*, whammy*, bewitching, bewitchment, conjuration, hexing, rune, witchery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | captivate, delight |
| Synonyms: | agitate, electrify, elevate, enchant, enrapture, entrance, excite, inflame, move, provoke, quicken, ravish, send, slay, stimulate, stir, thrill, trance, wow, carry away, spellbind, uplight |
| Antonyms: | repulse, turn off, disenchant |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apparition |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, chimera, delusion, ecstasy, fantasy, ghost, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, oracle, phantasm, phantom, phenomenon, presence, prophecy, revelation, specter, spirit, spook, trance, warlock, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, fact, reality |
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