Definition of Reverie

1. Noun. Absentminded dreaming while awake.


2. Noun. An abstracted state of absorption.
Exact synonyms: Revery
Generic synonyms: Abstractedness, Abstraction
Specialized synonyms: Dream, Brown Study

Definition of Reverie

1. n. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.

Definition of Reverie

1. Noun. A state of dreaming while awake ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reverie

1. a daydream [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverie

reverences
reverencest
reverenceth
reverencing
reverendly
reverends
reverent
reverential
reverentially
reverently
reverer
reverers
reveres
reverest
revereth
reverie (current term)
reveries
reverified
reverifies
reverify
reverifying
revering
reverist
reverists
reveromycin
revers
revers'd
reversal
reversal learning
reversals

Literary usage of Reverie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"The habit we allude to is that known by the name of reverie, or that indolent exercise of the imagination, much easier conceived than defined, ..."

2. Principles of mental physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and by William Benjamin Carpenter (1881)
"In the first, the directing and controlling- power of the Will is suspended, and the thoughts flow onwards automatically, as in reverie or Abstraction, ..."

3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"reverie—SCHUTT ['World's Best Music," Vol. Ill, p. 680. ... The reverie is a notable study in harmonic variety. ..."

4. Paris as Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1900)
"reverie GEORGE SAND I KNOW of no city in the world where strolling reverie is more agreeable than in Paris. If the poor pedestrian through heat and cold ..."

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