Trance vs. Rave — What's the Difference?

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.

To move with great violence or intensity

A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.

A rave (from the verb: to rave) describes a dance party at a warehouse, public or private property, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 90s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including techno, hardcore, house, dubstep, and alternative dance.

Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.

To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.

A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.

To speak or write with wild enthusiasm

A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect.

To attend a rave.

To put into a trance; entrance.

To utter or express in a frenzied or unrestrained manner.

(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

The act or an instance of raving.

(countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).

(Informal) An extravagantly enthusiastic opinion or review

A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.

An all-night dance party, especially one at which techno, house, or other electronically synthesized music is played.

A tedious journey.

Chiefly British A raucous party; a rave-up.

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.

Relating to or being an extravagantly enthusiastic opinion or review.

To create in or via a trance.

An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).

To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.

An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.

To pass across or over; to traverse.

The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties.

To travel quickly over a long distance.

One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

A tedious journey.

To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.

A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

To speak or write wildly or incoherently.

A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.

To entrance.

(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.

To pass over or across; to traverse.

To attend a rave (dance party).

To pass; to travel.

One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

An instance of raving.

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

A highly flattering or enthusiastic review of a play, book, etc.

Attract; cause to be enamored;

A clamorous dance party, especially one featuring a band or disc jockey playing loud modern rock music oriented toward young people, held in a large room such as a warehouse, often organized by an informal or ad hoc sponsor.

To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

To rush wildly or furiously.

To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; - followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

A dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played;

An extravagantly enthusiastic review;

Participate in an all-night techno dance party

Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

Praise enthusiastically;