He lay in a trance, sensuous but healthy, through which the talk of the two others did not seem particularly sad—they were discussing as to whether or no it is possible to be friends with an Englishman.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— STUPOR, DAZE
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Macmillan
— a state caused by hypnosis in which someone can move and speak but is not conscious in a normal way
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Collins
— A trance is a state of mind in which someone seems to be asleep and to have no conscious control over their thoughts or actions, but in which they can see and hear things and respond to commands given by other people.
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1 use of ‘trance’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster