Reverie

/ˈɹɛvəɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream..

Definitions by Sense

1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
2. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
3. To daydream.
4. (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment.

Example Sentences

If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!

we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]

Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / ⁠Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd.

He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.

Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.

We were bound for eternity / Now I am lost inside this everlasting reverie / And I'm losing my mind

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .

By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before.

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Word Forms

• reveries
• rêverie
• revery
• reverying
• reveried

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