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reverie
[ rev-uh-ree ]
noun
- a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing:
lost in reverie.
Synonyms: brown study, abstraction
- a daydream.
- a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea:
reveries that will never come to fruition.
- Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
reverie
/ ˈrɛvərɪ /
noun
- an act or state of absent-minded daydreaming
to fall into a reverie
- a piece of instrumental music suggestive of a daydream
- archaic.a fanciful or visionary notion; daydream
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of reverie1
Example Sentences
Who were we, to interrupt this man’s reverie?
Startled from their reverie, flurries of native hens - which piyura kitina is named after - scatter over the mossy grass as we arrive.
Huston’s ready-made villainy won’t suffer either, although I’m pretty sure a shot of him closing his eyes — ostensibly in monstrous reverie — is really just an attempt to remember better gigs.
“Maaannn,” he says, leaning his head back in an amused reverie.
The reverie, twisted as it may be, is an apt one.
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