reverie

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Revery

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

daydream daydreaming revery castle in the air oneirism air castle castle in Spain fantasia muse phantasy study capriccio hope consideration dream
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Antonyms

real world life world fact existence presence
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Hypernyms

dream abstraction dreaming abstractedness

Hyponyms

dream brown study

Phrases with the word

be in a reverie romantic reverie

Examples

Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement. John of Kronstadt

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. William Butler Yeats

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve. B. W. Powe

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo

Close letter words and terms

reverently reverentness reverer reverifiable reverification reverify