Synonyms for reverie
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Noun
1. Daydream — A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream
daydream, daydreaming, dream, flight of fancy, air castle, oneirism
Other
trance, musing, vision, abstraction, wool-gathering, brown study dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
Related words
- Other spellings
- revery rêverie
Forms
- Plural
- reveries → daydreams, daydreamings, dreams, oneirisms…
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A reverie is a purposeless drifting of the mind when awake, under the influence of mental images; a day-dream that which passes before the mind in such condition.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- dream The time will come when your dream will come true.
- daydream They call me a crazy person because I daydream.
- daydreaming Stop daydreaming and come down from your tree!
- trance The original episodes of Star Trek put him in a trance.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| reverie | rising | |
| dream | rising | |
| daydream | rising | |
| daydreaming | rising | |
| trance | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- dream1
- 6 letters
- vision2, trance1, musing2
- 8 letters
- daydream2, oneirism
- 11 letters
- abstraction3, daydreaming3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vision2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rêverie
- Italiano
- fantasticheria
- Español
- ensueño
- Deutsch
- Träumerei