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

synonyms: enchantment, spell.

Roget 515: imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve.    warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.    mind's eye;" such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]. ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.    dreaming; phrensy^†, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy^†; calenture etc. (delirium) 503^†; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism.    conception, Vorstellung [G.], excogitation^†, a fine frenzy;" cloudland^†, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.    conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey^†, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest^†, geste^†, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare.    flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne [Fr.]; Utopia, Atlantis^†, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction etc. (novel) 594; Arabian nights^†; le pot au lait [Fr.]; dream of Alnashar etc. (hope) 858^†.    illusion etc. (error) 495; phantom etc. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata Morgana etc. (ignis fatuus) [Lat.] 423; vapor etc. (cloud) 353; stretch of the imagination etc. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis^†.    idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus^†; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist etc. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful projector.    ... show more

Roget 683: inactivity; inaction etc. 681; inertness etc. 172; obstinacy etc. 606.    lull etc. (cessation) 142; quiescence etc. 265; rust, rustiness.    idleness, remissness etc. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence^†; dawdling etc. v.. ergophobia^†, otiosity^†.    dullness etc. adj.; languor; segnity^†, segnitude^†; lentor^†; sluggishness etc. (slowness) 275; procrastination etc. (delay) 133; torpor, torpidity, torpescence^†; stupor etc. (insensibility) 823; somnolence; drowsiness etc. adj.; nodding etc. v.; oscitation^†, oscitancy^†; pandiculation^†, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness^†, heavy eyelids.    sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis^†, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology^†.    dull work; pottering; relaxation etc. (loosening) 47; Castle of Indolence.    [Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic etc. 174; torpedo.    [person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil^†, dawdle, mopus^†; do-little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant etc. (runaway) 623; bummer^†, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone [It]; lubber, lubbard^†; slow coach etc. (slow.) 275; opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag^†, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 823: insensibility, insensibleness^†; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency^†, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude^†, supineness, lukewarmness^†.    cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism, imperturbation etc. (inexcitability) 826^†; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance etc. (indifference) 866; recklessness etc. 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.    torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction^†, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep etc. 683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness etc. (physical insensibility) 376.    neutrality; quietism, vegetation.    ... show more

Dutch: trance, toverspreuk, ban, betovering

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

Polish: trans

Attract; cause to be enamored.

synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate ... show more.

Dutch: boeien, bekoren, vangen