HYPNOTIC TRANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypnotic trance mean? 

• HYPNOTIC TRANCE (noun)
  The noun HYPNOTIC TRANCE has 1 sense:

1. a trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist

  Familiarity information: HYPNOTIC TRANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPNOTIC TRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hypnotic trance" is a kind of...):

trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep)

 Context examples 

Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He replied: "We have the best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotise her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should, if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)